A simple proof of Graham and Pollak's theorem

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2005.07.005zbMATH Open1104.15010OpenAlexW2071165444MaRDI QIDQ2497973FDOQ2497973

Authors: Weigen Yan, Yeong-Nan Yeh 

Publication date: 4 August 2006

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2005.07.005

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zbMATH Keywords

determinantdistance matrixDodgson's determinant-evaluation rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Trees (05C05) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15)

Cites Work

• On the Addressing Problem for Loop Switching
• On the distance matrix of a tree
• Distance matrix polynomials of trees
• On the distance matrix of a directed graph
• Dodgon's determinant-evaluation rule proved by TWO-TIMING MEN and WOMEN

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• On the decomposition of random hypergraphs
• Identities for minors of the Laplacian, resistance and distance matrices of graphs with arbitrary weights
• New proofs of Bapat and Sivasubramanian's theorems
• The product distance matrix of a tree with matrix weights on its arcs
• The distance matrix of a tree with weights on its arcs
• A generalization of the Graham-Pollak tree theorem to even-order Steiner distance
• Graph families with constant distance determinant
• Distance matrices of subsets of the Hamming cube
• Decomposition of random graphs into complete bipartite graphs
• Inverses of \(q\)-distance matrices of a tree
• A new proof of a theorem of Graham and Pollak
• A generalization of the Graham-Pollak tree theorem to Steiner distance
• Distance matrices of a tree: two more invariants, and in a unified framework
• A \(q\)-analogue of distance matrix of block graphs
• Another simple proof of Graham and Pollak's theorem
• The determinants of \(q\)-distance matrices of trees and two quantities relating to permutations
• The inverse of the distance matrix of a distance well-defined graph
• \(q\)-analogs of distance matrices of 3-hypertrees
• Proof of a conjecture of Graham and Lovász concerning unimodality of coefficients of the distance characteristic polynomial of a tree

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