{"title":"Structural parameters of Schnyder woods","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114282","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study two fundamental parameters of Schnyder woods by exploiting structurally related methods. First, we prove a new lower bound on the total number of leaves in the three trees of a Schnyder wood. Second, it is well-known that Schnyder woods can be used to find three compatible ordered path partitions. We prove new lower bounds on the number of singletons, i.e. paths that consists of exactly one vertex, in such compatible ordered path partitions. All bounds that we present are tight.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X24004138","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We study two fundamental parameters of Schnyder woods by exploiting structurally related methods. First, we prove a new lower bound on the total number of leaves in the three trees of a Schnyder wood. Second, it is well-known that Schnyder woods can be used to find three compatible ordered path partitions. We prove new lower bounds on the number of singletons, i.e. paths that consists of exactly one vertex, in such compatible ordered path partitions. All bounds that we present are tight.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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