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A gold-grabbing game ★★

Author(s): Rosenfeld

Setup Fix a tree $ T $ and for every vertex $ v \in V(T) $ a non-negative integer $ g(v) $ which we think of as the amount of gold at $ v $.

2-Player game Players alternate turns. On each turn, a player chooses a leaf vertex $ v $ of the tree, takes the gold at this vertex, and then deletes $ v $. The game ends when the tree is empty, and the winner is the player who has accumulated the most gold.

Problem   Find optimal strategies for the players.

Keywords: game; tree

Posted by mdevos
updated October 4th, 2009
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Graph Theory » Coloring » Vertex coloring

Graphs with a forbidden induced tree are chi-bounded ★★★

Author(s): Gyarfas

Say that a family $ {\mathcal F} $ of graphs is $ \chi $-bounded if there exists a function $ f: {\mathbb N} \rightarrow {\mathbb N} $ so that every $ G \in {\mathcal F} $ satisfies $ \chi(G) \le f (\omega(G)) $.

Conjecture   For every fixed tree $ T $, the family of graphs with no induced subgraph isomorphic to $ T $ is $ \chi $-bounded.

Keywords: chi-bounded; coloring; excluded subgraph; tree

Posted by mdevos
updated May 16th, 2009
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Graph Theory » Algebraic G.T.

Does the chromatic symmetric function distinguish between trees? ★★

Author(s): Stanley

Problem   Do there exist non-isomorphic trees which have the same chromatic symmetric function?

Keywords: chromatic polynomial; symmetric function; tree

Posted by mdevos
updated February 25th, 2009
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Graph Theory » Basic G.T.

Graham's conjecture on tree reconstruction ★★

Author(s): Graham

Problem   for every graph $ G $, we let $ L(G) $ denote the line graph of $ G $. Given that $ G $ is a tree, can we determine it from the integer sequence $ |V(G)|, |V(L(G))|, |V(L(L(G)))|, \ldots $?

Keywords: reconstruction; tree

Posted by mdevos
updated January 16th, 2013
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