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Characterization of transmission irregular starlike and double starlike trees

Combinatorics 2025-06-09 v1

Abstract

The transmission of a vertex in a connected graph is the sum of its distances to all the other vertices. A graph is transmission irregular (TI) when all of its vertices have mutually distinct transmissions. In an earlier paper, Al-Yakoob and Stevanovi\'c [Appl. Math. Comput. 380 (2020), 125257] gave the full characterization of TI starlike trees with three branches. Here, we improve these results by using a different approach to provide the complete characterization of all TI starlike trees. Moreover, we find the precise conditions under which a double starlike tree is TI. Finally, we implement the aforementioned conditions in order to find several infinite families of TI starlike trees and TI double starlike trees.

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@article{arxiv.2311.14259,
  title  = {Characterization of transmission irregular starlike and double starlike trees},
  author = {Ivan Damnjanović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14259},
  year   = {2025}
}