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Keywords:
geodetic graphs; connected graph; shortest paths
Summary:
Let $G$ be a (finite undirected) connected graph (with no loop or multiple edge). The set $\Cal L$ of all shortest paths in $G$ is defined as the set of all paths $\xi$, then the lenght of $\xi$ does not exceed the length of $\varsigma$. While the definition of $\Cal L$ is based on determining the length of a path. Theorem 1 gives - metaphorically speaking - an "almost non-metric" characterization of $\Cal L$: a characterization in which the length of a path greater than one is not considered. Two other theorems are derived from Theorem 1. One of them (Theorem 3) gives a characterization of geodetic graphs.
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