The Average Connectivity of a Family of Expander Graphs

Patrick Bahls1
1Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC 28804

Abstract

The covering number for a subset of leaves in a finite rooted tree is defined as the number of subtrees that remain after deleting all the paths connecting the root to the other leaves. We find the formula for the total sum (hence the average) of the covering numbers for a given subset of labeled leaves over all unordered binary trees with \( n \) leaves.