Carole Porrier ; Alain Goupil ; Alexandre Blondin Massé - The Leaf Function of Penrose P2 Graphs

dmtcs:13662 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, September 20, 2025, vol. 27:3 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.13662
The Leaf Function of Penrose P2 GraphsArticle

Authors: Carole Porrier ; Alexandre Blondin Massé ; Alain Goupil

    We study a graph-theoretic problem in the Penrose P2-graphs which are the dual graphs of Penrose tilings by kites and darts. Using substitutions, local isomorphism and other properties of Penrose tilings, we construct a family of arbitrarily large induced subtrees of Penrose graphs with the largest possible number of leaves for a given number $n$ of vertices. These subtrees are called fully leafed induced subtrees. We denote their number of leaves $L_{P2}(n)$ for any non-negative integer $n$, and the sequence $\left(L_{P2}(n)\right)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ is called the leaf function of Penrose P2-graphs. We present exact and recursive formulae for $L_{P2}(n)$, as well as an infinite sequence of fully leafed induced subtrees, which are caterpillar graphs. In particular, our proof relies on the construction of a finite graded poset of 3-internal-regular subtrees.

    25 pages, 19 figures


    Volume: vol. 27:3
    Section: Discrete Algorithms
    Published on: September 20, 2025
    Accepted on: August 18, 2025
    Submitted on: May 25, 2024
    Keywords: Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, 90C27 (Primary) 52C23 05B45, 05C10 (Secondary) 05C05 68R10 05C30 05C63 05C69, G.2.1; G.2.2

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