Graceful Graphs

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.