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We introduce the tree distance, a new distance measure on graphs. The tree distance can be computed in polynomial time with standard methods from convex optimization. It is based on the notion of fractional isomorphism, a characterization…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jan Böker

Given a spanning tree $T$ of a planar graph $G$, the co-tree of $T$ is the spanning tree of the dual graph $G^*$ with edge set $(E(G)-E(T))^*$. Gr\"unbaum conjectured in 1970 that every planar 3-connected graph $G$ contains a spanning tree…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Christian Ortlieb , Jens M. Schmidt

A vertex subset of a graph is called a distance-$k$ independent set if the distance between any two of its distinct vertices is at least $k + 1$. For all $n,k \geq 1$, we determine the minimum possible number of inclusion-wise maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Dmitrii Taletskii

The eccentricity of a vertex $v$ in a graph $G$ is the maximum distance from $v$ to any other vertex. The vertices whose eccentricity are equal to the diameter (the maximum eccentricity) of $G$ are called peripheral vertices. In trees the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Ya-Hong Chen , Hua Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a tree cover is a collection of trees $\mathcal{T}=\{T_1,T_2,...,T_q\}$, such that for every pair of vertices $u,v\in V$ there is a tree $T\in\mathcal{T}$ that contains a $u-v$ path with a small stretch. If the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Michael Elkin , Idan Shabat

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of colors that is needed to color the vertices of $G$ such that the only color preserving automorphism is the identity. For infinite graphs $D(G)$ is bounded by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Svenja Hüning , Wilfried Imrich , Judith Kloas , Hannah Schreiber , Thomas W. Tucker

Let $\mathcal{G}_{n,r,s}$ denote a uniformly random $r$-regular $s$-uniform hypergraph on the vertex set $\{1,2,\ldots, n\}$. We establish a threshold result for the existence of a spanning tree in $\mathcal{G}_{n,r,s}$, restricting to $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Catherine Greenhill , Mikhail Isaev , Gary Liang

This work addresses the intrinsic relationship between trees and networks (i.e. graphs). A complete (invertible) mapping is presented which allows trees to be mapped into weighted graphs and then backmapped into the original tree without…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-08-07 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

In this article, we will prove that if $G$ is a connected claw-free graph and either $\sigma_6(G)\geq |G|-5$ or $\sigma_7(G)\geq |G|-2$, here $\sigma_k(G)$ is the minimmum degree sum of $k$ independent vertices in $G$, then $G$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Pham Hoang Ha , Dang Dinh Hanh

The problem of spanning trees is closely related to various interesting problems in the area of statistical physics, but determining the number of spanning trees in general networks is computationally intractable. In this paper, we perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-23 Zhongzhi Zhang , Bin Wu , Yuan Lin

In this work we define a novel edit distance for trees considered with some abstract weights on the edges. The metric is driven by the idea of considering trees as topological summaries in the context of persistence and topological data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Matteo Pegoraro

This paper addresses the basic question of how well can a tree approximate distances of a metric space or a graph. Given a graph, the problem of constructing a spanning tree in a graph which strongly preserves distances in the graph is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ittai Abraham , Yair Bartal , Ofer Neiman

A tree t-spanner of an unweighted graph G is a spanning tree T such that for every two vertices their distance in T is at most t times their distance in G. Given an unweighted graph G and a positive integer t as input, the tree t-spanner…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-17 N. S. Narayanaswamy , G. Ramakrishna

A treedepth decomposition of an undirected graph $G$ is a rooted forest $F$ on the vertex set of $G$ such that every edge $uv\in E(G)$ is in ancestor-descendant relationship in $F$. Given a weight function $w\colon V(G)\rightarrow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jona Dirks , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices and an assignment of colours to its edges, a set of edges $S \subseteq E$ is said to be rainbow if edges from $S$ have pairwise different colours assigned to them. In this paper, we investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Deepak Bal , Alan Frieze , Pawel Pralat

The number of spanning trees of a graph is an important invariant related to topological and dynamic properties of the graph, such as its reliability, communication aspects, synchronization, and so on. However, the practical enumeration of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shunqi Wu , Mingyun Li , Francesc Comellas

In this paper, we consider the Visibility Graph Recognition and Reconstruction problems in the context of terrains. Here, we are given a graph $G$ with labeled vertices $v_0, v_1, \ldots, v_{n-1}$ such that the labeling corresponds with a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Safwa Ameer , Matt Gibson-Lopez , Erik Krohn , Sean Soderman , Qing Wang

Let $H=(V,F)$ be a simple hypergraph without loops. $H$ is called linear if $|f\cap g|\le 1$ for any $f,g\in F$ with $f\not=g$. The $2$-section of $H$, denoted by $[H]_2$, is a graph with $V([H]_2)=V$ and for any $ u,v\in V([H]_2)$, $uv\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ke Liu , Mei Lu

This paper considers the conjecture by Gr\"unbaum that every planar 3-connected graph has a spanning tree $T$ such that both $T$ and its co-tree have maximum degree at most 3. Here, the co-tree of $T$ is the spanning tree of the dual…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Therese Biedl

Let $R$ and $B$ be a set of red points and a set of blue points in the plane, respectively, such that $R\cup B$ is in general position, and let $f:R \to \{2,3,4, \ldots \}$ be a function. We show that if $2\le |B|\le \sum_{x\in R}(f(x)-2) +…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Mikio Kano , Kenta Noguchi , David Orden