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Trees with the most subtrees -- an algorithmic approach
When considering the number of subtrees of trees, the extremal structures
which maximize this number among binary trees and trees with a given maximum
degree lead to some interesting facts that correlate to other graphical indices
in applications. The number of subtrees in the extremal cases constitute
sequences which are of interest to number theorists. The structures which
maximize or minimize the number of subtrees among general trees, binary trees
and trees with a given maximum degree have been identified previously. Most
recently, results of this nature are generalized to trees with a given degree
sequence. In this note, we characterize the trees which maximize the number of
subtrees among trees of a given order and degree sequence. Instead of using
theoretical arguments, we take an algorithmic approach that explicitly
describes the process of achieving an extremal tree from any random tree. The
result also leads to some interesting questions and provides insight on finding
the trees close to extremal and their numbers of subtrees.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures; Journal of combinatorics, 201
Greedy Trees, Subtrees and Antichains
Greedy trees are constructed from a given degree sequence by a simple greedy algorithm that assigns the highest degree to the root, the second-, third-, ... highest degrees to the root\u27s neighbors, and so on.
They have been shown to maximize or minimize a number of different graph invariants among trees with a given degree sequence. In particular, the total number of subtrees of a tree is maximized by the greedy tree. In this work, we show that in fact a much stronger statement holds true: greedy trees maximize the number of subtrees of any given order. This parallels recent results on distance-based graph invariants.
We obtain a number of corollaries from this fact and also prove analogous results for related invariants, most notably the number of antichains of given cardinality in a rooted tree
Combinatorial families of multilabelled increasing trees and hook-length formulas
In this work we introduce and study various generalizations of the notion of
increasingly labelled trees, where the label of a child node is always larger
than the label of its parent node, to multilabelled tree families, where the
nodes in the tree can get multiple labels. For all tree classes we show
characterizations of suitable generating functions for the tree enumeration
sequence via differential equations. Furthermore, for several combinatorial
classes of multilabelled increasing tree families we present explicit
enumeration results. We also present multilabelled increasing tree families of
an elliptic nature, where the exponential generating function can be expressed
in terms of the Weierstrass-p function or the lemniscate sine function.
Furthermore, we show how to translate enumeration formulas for multilabelled
increasing trees into hook-length formulas for trees and present a general
"reverse engineering" method to discover hook-length formulas associated to
such tree families.Comment: 37 page
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