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Trees and Cycles

Proposition: A tree has only cycles of length 0:

forall T: T is tree =>
  ~(exists p: p is path in T /\  length(p) > 0 /\  p is cycle).

No (non-trivial) path in a tree is a cycle.


Author: Wolfgang Schreiner
Last Modification: January 26, 2000

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