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- Subject: conjecture about graphs
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- Def. Let G be a graph and let v be in V(G). Let S_v = bigsum d(u,v)
- for all u not= v ( u in V(G)). G is called self-median if
- S_v = S_u for all u and v in V(G).
- Def. A graph G is called self-centered if every vertex is in the center.
- (The eccenticity of a vertex v is max d(u,v) for all u in V(G).
- v is in the center if v has minimum eccentricity. It is well-know that
- a tree has at most two vertices in its center.)
-
- CONJECTURE: Every self-median graph is self-centered.
- Note that every vertex transitive graph is self-median. There are
- examples of self-centered graphs that are not self-median, so the
- above inclusion would be strict. There is no known characterization of
- self-median graphs. There are non-regular self-medain graphs -
- see the recent book by Buckley and Harary "Distances in Graphs" for
- more information.
- H.S. Snevily
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