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Trees and Tree-Equivalent Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

C. Ramanujacharyulu*
Affiliation:
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
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As is well known in the theory of graphs a tree is a connected graph without cycles. Many characterizing properties of trees are known (1), for example the cyclomatic number is equal to zero, which is also equal to p — 1, where p is the number of connected components of the graph. The graphs with cyclomatic number equal to p — 1 are defined here as tree-equivalent graphs. A tree is always a tree-equivalent graph but not conversely. The properties of tree-equivalent graphs are studied here.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

References

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