On friendliness between trees

Abstract

The notion of friendliness between trees first appeared in solution of Lando's problem on intersection of polyhedra in 3-space. A tree is friendly to a path graph if edges of the tree can be numbered so that for each k,s the path between the edges k and k+1 contains either both or none of the edges k+2s,k+2s+1. Theorem. If a tree contains a path containing all vertices of degree greater than 2, then the tree is friendly to a path graph. We also prove another sufficient condition for friendliness to a path graph and a criterion for friendliness between trees, one of which has diameter 3.