Connectoids II: existence of normal trees

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Autori principali: Bowler, Nathan, Reich, Florian
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author Bowler, Nathan
Reich, Florian
author_facet Bowler, Nathan
Reich, Florian
contents In this series, we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects such as undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids. In the first paper, we developed a universal end space theory based on connectoids that unifies the existing end spaces of undirected and directed graphs. In this paper, we establish normal trees of connectoids as a natural generalisation of normal trees of undirected graphs, which are one of the most important tools in infinite graph theory. More precisely, we show that the existence of normal trees of connectoids can be characterised in the same way as for normal trees of undirected graphs: We extend Jung's famous characterisation via dispersed sets to connectoids, and prove that normal spanning trees exist if they exist in some neighbourhood of each end. Furthermore, we show that a connectoid has a normal spanning tree if and only if its groundset can be well-ordered in a certain way, called countable separation number.
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spellingShingle Connectoids II: existence of normal trees
Bowler, Nathan
Reich, Florian
Combinatorics
05C40, 05C63
In this series, we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects such as undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids. In the first paper, we developed a universal end space theory based on connectoids that unifies the existing end spaces of undirected and directed graphs. In this paper, we establish normal trees of connectoids as a natural generalisation of normal trees of undirected graphs, which are one of the most important tools in infinite graph theory. More precisely, we show that the existence of normal trees of connectoids can be characterised in the same way as for normal trees of undirected graphs: We extend Jung's famous characterisation via dispersed sets to connectoids, and prove that normal spanning trees exist if they exist in some neighbourhood of each end. Furthermore, we show that a connectoid has a normal spanning tree if and only if its groundset can be well-ordered in a certain way, called countable separation number.
title Connectoids II: existence of normal trees
topic Combinatorics
05C40, 05C63
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15249