Title
Geodesics in transitive graphs
Abstract
Let P be a double ray in an infinite graph X , and let d and d P denote the distance functions in X and in P respectively. One calls P a geodesic if d ( x ,  y )= d P ( x ,  y ), for all vertices x and y in P . We give situations when every edge of a graph belongs to a geodesic or a half-geodesic. Furthermore, we show the existence of geodesics in infinite locally-finite transitive graphs with polynomial growth which are left invariant (set-wise) under “translating” automorphisms. As the main result, we show that an infinite, locally-finite, transitive, 1-ended graph with polynomial growth is planar if and only if the complement of every geodesic has exactly two infinite components.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1006/jctb.1996.0031
J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B
Keywords
Field
DocType
transitive graph,distance function
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Comparability graph,Transitive set,Transitive reduction,Clebsch graph,Transitive closure,Symmetric graph,Geodesic,Mathematics,Transitive relation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
1
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.50
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
C. Paul Bonnington110019.95
W. Imrich26420.65
N Seifter313726.49