@Article{Bednarz2017, author = "Bednarz, Urszula and Bród, Dorota and Szynal-Liana, Anetta and Włoch, Iwona and Wołowiec-Musiał, Małgorzata", title = "On Fibonacci numbers in edge coloured trees", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2017", volume = "37", number = "4", pages = "479--490", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2017.37.4.479", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2017.37.4.479", abstract = "In this paper we show the applications of the Fibonacci numbers in edge coloured trees. We determine the second smallest number of all \((A,2B)\)-edge colourings in trees. We characterize the minimum tree achieving this second smallest value.", keywords = "edge colouring, tree, tripod, Fibonacci numbers", issn = "1232-9274" }