Abstract
AbstractLet 𝒯 be the class of unlabeled trees. An unlabeled vertex‐deleted subgraph of a tree T is called a card. A collection of cards is called a deck. We say that the tree T has a deck D if each card in D can be obtained by deleting distinct vertices of T. If T is the only unlabeled tree that has the deck D, we say that T is 𝒯‐reconstructible from D. We want to know how large of a deck D is necessary for T to be 𝒯‐reconstructible. We define 𝒯rn(T) as the minimum number of cards in a deck D such that T is 𝒯‐reconstructible from D. It is known that 𝒯rn(T)≤3, but it is conjectured that 𝒯rn(T)≤2 for all trees T. We prove that the conjecture holds for all homeomorphically irreducible trees. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 63: 243–257, 2010
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