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Balanced vertices in labeled rooted trees

Combinatorics 2017-09-15 v2

Abstract

In a rooted tree, we call a vertex {\em balanced} if it is at equal distance from all its descendant leaves. We count balanced vertices in three different tree varieties. For decreasing binary trees, we can prove that the probability that a vertex chosen uniformly at random from the set of all trees of a given size is balanced is monotone decreasing.

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@article{arxiv.1705.09688,
  title  = {Balanced vertices in labeled rooted trees},
  author = {Miklos Bona},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.09688},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures

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