On the SIG dimension of trees under $L_{\infty}$ metric

We study the $SIG$ dimension of trees under $L_{\infty}$ metric and answer an open problem posed by Michael and Quint (Discrete Applied Mathematics: 127, pages 447-460, 2003). Let $T$ be a tree with atleast two vertices. For each $v\in V(T)$, let leaf-degree$(v)$ denote the number of neighbours of $v$ that are leaves. We define the maximum leaf-degree as $α(T) = \max_{x \in V(T)}$ leaf-degree$(x)$. Let $S = \{v\in V(T) |$ leaf-degree$(v) = α\}$. If $|S| = 1$, we define $β(T) = α(T) - 1$. Otherwise define $β(T) = α(T)$. We show that for a tree $T$, $SIG_\infty(T) = \lceil \log_2(β+ 2)\rceil$ where $β= β(T)$, provided $β$ is not of the form $2^k - 1$, for some positive integer $k \geq 1$. If $β= 2^k - 1$, then $SIG_\infty (T) \in \{k, k+1\}$. We show that both values are possible.

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