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Completely Independent Spanning Trees in Some Regular Graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2014-09-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let k2k\ge 2 be an integer and T1,,TkT_1,\ldots, T_k be spanning trees of a graph GG. If for any pair of vertices (u,v)(u,v) of V(G)V(G), the paths from uu to vv in each TiT_i, 1ik1\le i\le k, do not contain common edges and common vertices, except the vertices uu and vv, then T1,,TkT_1,\ldots, T_k are completely independent spanning trees in GG. For 2k2k-regular graphs which are 2k2k-connected, such as the Cartesian product of a complete graph of order 2k12k-1 and a cycle and some Cartesian products of three cycles (for k=3k=3), the maximum number of completely independent spanning trees contained in these graphs is determined and it turns out that this maximum is not always kk.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6002,
  title  = {Completely Independent Spanning Trees in Some Regular Graphs},
  author = {Benoit Darties and Nicolas Gastineau and Olivier Togni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6002},
  year   = {2014}
}
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