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End compactifications in non-locally-finite graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2001

B. KRÖN
Affiliation:
Current address: Institut für Mathematik C, Technische Universität Graz, Steyrergasse 30, 8010 - Graz, tel.: +43/316/873-4509, e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

There are different definitions of ends in non-locally-finite graphs which are all equivalent in the locally finite case. We prove the compactness of the end-topology that is based on the principle of removing finite sets of vertices and give a proof of the compactness of the end-topology that is constructed by the principle of removing finite sets of edges. For the latter case there exists already a proof in [1], which only works on graphs with countably infinite vertex sets and in contrast to which we do not use the Theorem of Tychonoff. We also construct a new topology of ends that arises from the principle of removing sets of vertices with finite diameter and give applications that underline the advantages of this new definition.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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