All trees of diameter five are graceful (Q5936024)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1612884
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All trees of diameter five are graceful
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1612884

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    All trees of diameter five are graceful (English)
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    6 June 2002
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    The paper adds a small step to the Ringel-Kotzig conjecture, which asserts that all trees are graceful, in proving that all trees of diameter 5 are graceful. Main tool is a shifting procedure transferring a graceful tree into another graceful tree, which is also useful to give a new proof for the gracefulness of trees of diameter 4.
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    graceful labeling
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    diameter
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    Ringel-Kotzig conjecture
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    graceful tree
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