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A spectral condition for spanning trees with restricted degrees in bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2026-03-24 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a graph and TT be a spanning tree of GG. We use Q(G)=D(G)+A(G)Q(G)=D(G)+A(G) to denote the signless Laplacian matrix of GG, where D(G)D(G) is the diagonal degree matrix of GG and A(G)A(G) is the adjacency matrix of GG. The signless Laplacian spectral radius of GG is denoted by q(G)q(G). A necessary and sufficient condition for a connected bipartite graph GG with bipartition (A,B)(A,B) to have a spanning tree TT with dT(v)kd_T(v)\geq k for any vAv\in A was independently obtained by Frank and Gy\'arf\'as (A. Frank, E. Gy\'arf\'as, How to orient the edges of a graph?, Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai 18 (1976) 353--364), Kaneko and Yoshimoto (A. Kaneko, K. Yoshimoto, On spanning trees with restricted degrees, Inform. Process. Lett. 73 (2000) 163--165). Based on the above result, we establish a lower bound on the signless Laplacian spectral radius q(G)q(G) of a connected bipartite graph GG with bipartition (A,B)(A,B), in which the bound guarantees that GG has a spanning tree TT with dT(v)kd_T(v)\geq k for any vAv\in A.

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@article{arxiv.2412.00700,
  title  = {A spectral condition for spanning trees with restricted degrees in bipartite graphs},
  author = {Jiancheng Wu and Sizhong Zhou and Hongxia Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00700},
  year   = {2026}
}

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