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Optimal Trees for Functions of Internal Distance
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  • Alex Collins, Georgia State University
  • Fedelis Mutiso, Georgia Southern University
  • Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2012
DOI
10.2140/involve.2012.5.371
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Abstract

The sum of distances between vertices of a tree has been considered from many aspects. The question of characterizing the extremal trees that maximize or minimize various such “distance-based” graph invariants has been extensively studied. Such invariants include, to name a few, the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices and the sum of distances between all pairs of leaves. With respect to the distances between internal vertices, we provide analogous results that characterize the extremal trees that minimize the value of any nonnegative and nondecreasing function of internal distances among trees with various constraints.

Citation Information
Alex Collins, Fedelis Mutiso and Hua Wang. "Optimal Trees for Functions of Internal Distance" Involve Vol. 5 Iss. 3 (2012) p. 371 - 378 ISSN: 1944-4184
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hua_wang/70/