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Proximinal sets and connectedness in graphs

General Topology 2023-03-07 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let GG be a graph with a vertex set VV. The graph GG is path-proximinal if there are a semimetric d ⁣:V×V[0,[d \colon V \times V \to [0, \infty[ and disjoint proximinal subsets of the semimetric space (V,d)(V, d) such that V=ABV = A \cup B, and vertices uu, vVv \in V are adjacent iff d(u,v)inf{d(x,y) ⁣:xA,yB}, d(u, v) \leqslant \inf \{d(x, y) \colon x \in A, y \in B\}, and, for every pVp \in V, there is a path connecting AA and BB in GG, and passing through pp. It is shown that a graph is path-proximinal if and only if all its vertices are not isolated. It is also shown that a graph is simultaneously proximinal and path-proximinal for an ultrametric if and only if the degree of every its vertex is equal to 11.

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@article{arxiv.2303.02739,
  title  = {Proximinal sets and connectedness in graphs},
  author = {Karim Chaira and Oleksiy Dovgoshey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02739},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures

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