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IR-TST 2014 Problem 7

  • Test 2

Consider a tree with nn vertices, labeled with 1,…,n1,\ldots,n in a way that no label is used twice. We change the labeling in the following way - each time we pick an edge that hasn't been picked before and swap the labels of its endpoints. After performing this action n−1n-1 times, we get another tree with its labeling a permutation of the first graph's labeling. Prove that this permutation contains exactly one cycle.

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