Graphs, Graceful Graphs

Graceful Graphs

If the vertices of a graph are labeled 1 to n, the graph is graceful if every edge u→v corresponds to a unique difference abs(u-v). Since there are only n-1 possible differences, the graph contains at most n-1 edges. A connected graceful graph is a tree.

An unlabeled graph is graceful if it can be labeled gracefully.

Connect the point called 1 to all the other points, and you have a graceful graph. Hence a graceful tree exists for every n.