Graphs with connected medians

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 268-282

  Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Chepoi, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graphs; Local medians; LP duality; Majority rule; Medians

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUNCTIONS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMBER THEORY; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

CONNECTED MEDIANS; LOCAL MEDIANS; MAJORITY RULE;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 0036487484     PISSN: 08954801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S089548019936360X     Document Type: Article

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