New graceful diameter-6 trees by transfers
Abstract
Given a graph , a labeling of is an injective function . Under the labeling , the label of a vertex is , and the induced label of an edge is . The labeling is graceful if the labels of the vertices are , and the induced labels of the edges are distinct. The graph is graceful if it has a graceful labeling. The Graceful Tree Conjecture, introduced by Kotzig in the late 1960's, states that all trees are graceful. It is an open problem whether every diameter-6 tree has a graceful labeling. In this paper, we prove that if is a tree with central vertex and root , such that each vertex not in the last two levels has an odd number of children, and satisfies one of the following conditions (a)-(e), then has a graceful labeling with : (a) is a diameter-6 complete tree; (b) is a diameter-6 tree such that no two leaves of distance 2 from are siblings, and each leaf of distance 2 from has a sibling with an even number of children; (c) is a diameter- complete tree, such that the number of vertices of distance from , with an even number of children, is not ; (d) is a diameter- tree, such that the number of vertices of distance from , with an even number of children, is not , no two leaves of distance from are siblings, and each leaf of distance from has a sibling with an even number of children; (e) is a diameter-6 tree, such that each internal vertex has an odd number of children. In particular, all depth-3 trees of which each internal vertex has an odd number of children are graceful.
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@article{arxiv.1402.6570,
title = {New graceful diameter-6 trees by transfers},
author = {Matt Superdock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.6570},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
This paper is based on my undergraduate senior thesis for the math department at Princeton University, from which I graduated in June 2013