{"title":"The Number of Topological Types of Trees","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00493-024-00087-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Two graphs are of the same <em>topological type</em> if they can be mutually embedded into each other topologically. We show that there are exactly <span> <span>\\(\\aleph _1\\)</span> </span> distinct topological types of countable trees. In general, for any infinite cardinal <span> <span>\\(\\kappa \\)</span> </span> there are exactly <span> <span>\\(\\kappa ^+\\)</span> </span> distinct topological types of trees of size <span> <span>\\(\\kappa \\)</span> </span>. This solves a problem of van der Holst from 2005.</p>","PeriodicalId":50666,"journal":{"name":"Combinatorica","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Combinatorica","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-024-00087-2","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Two graphs are of the same topological type if they can be mutually embedded into each other topologically. We show that there are exactly \(\aleph _1\) distinct topological types of countable trees. In general, for any infinite cardinal \(\kappa \) there are exactly \(\kappa ^+\) distinct topological types of trees of size \(\kappa \). This solves a problem of van der Holst from 2005.
期刊介绍:
COMBINATORICA publishes research papers in English in a variety of areas of combinatorics and the theory of computing, with particular emphasis on general techniques and unifying principles. Typical but not exclusive topics covered by COMBINATORICA are
- Combinatorial structures (graphs, hypergraphs, matroids, designs, permutation groups).
- Combinatorial optimization.
- Combinatorial aspects of geometry and number theory.
- Algorithms in combinatorics and related fields.
- Computational complexity theory.
- Randomization and explicit construction in combinatorics and algorithms.