Distance preserving map between trees [Iran TST 2010]
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June 9, 2010
functioninductioncombinatorics proposedcombinatorics
Problem Statement
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 in this graph is defined by sum of length of all edges in the path between and . Let be a bijective function from leaves of to leaves of , such that for each two leaves of , distance of in is equal to distance of in . Prove that there is a bijective function from vertices of to vertices of such that for each two vertices of , distance of in is equal to distance of and in .