Reachability Results in Plane Trees

Year 2021, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 75 - 88, 30.06.2021

Albert Nyariaro , Isaac Owino Okoth

https://doi.org/10.33434/cams.936558

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain closed formulas for the number of reachable vertices in labelled plane trees by paths lengths, sinks, leaf sinks, first children, left most path, non-first children, and non-leaves. Our counting objects are plane trees having their edges oriented from a vertex of lower label towards a vertex of higher label. For each statistic, we obtain the average number of reachable vertices. Moreover, we obtain a counting formula for the number of plane trees on $n$ vertices such that exactly $k\leq n$ are reachable from the root.

Keywords

Plane tree, Leaf, Sink

Supporting Institution

Maseno University

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