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2-switch: transition and stability on forests and pseudofests

Combinatorics 2026-03-12 v2

Abstract

Given any two forests (pseudoforests) with the same degree sequence, we show that one can be transformed into the other by a sequence of 2-switches in such a way that all the intermediate graphs of the transformation are forests (pseudoforests). We also prove that the 2-switch operation perturbs minimally some well-known integer parameters in families of graphs with the same degree sequence. Then, we apply these results to conclude that the studied parameters have the interval property on those families.

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@article{arxiv.2603.07439,
  title  = {2-switch: transition and stability on forests and pseudofests},
  author = {Victor N. Schvöllner and Adrián Pastine and Daniel A. Jaume},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07439},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Title metadata updated to correct a typographical error

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:08:52.115Z