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Distance preserving map between trees [Iran TST 2010]

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June 9, 2010
functioninductioncombinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

S,TS,T are two trees without vertices of degree 2. To each edge is associated a positive number which is called length of this edge. Distance between two arbitrary vertices v,wv,w in this graph is defined by sum of length of all edges in the path between vv and ww. Let ff be a bijective function from leaves of SS to leaves of TT, such that for each two leaves u,vu,v of SS, distance of u,vu,v in SS is equal to distance of f(u),f(v)f(u), f(v) in TT. Prove that there is a bijective function gg from vertices of SS to vertices of TT such that for each two vertices u,vu,v of SS, distance of u,vu,v in SS is equal to distance of g(u)g(u) and g(v)g(v) in TT.