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Globally balancing spanning trees

Combinatorics 2022-08-09 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We show that for every graph GG that contains two edge-disjoint spanning trees, we can choose two edge-disjoint spanning trees T1,T2T_1,T_2 of GG such that dT1(v)dT2(v)5|d_{T_1}(v)-d_{T_2}(v)|\leq 5 for all vV(G)v \in V(G). We also prove the more general statement that for every positive integer kk, there is a constant ckO(logk)c_k \in O(\log k) such that for every graph GG that contains kk edge-disjoint spanning trees, we can choose kk edge-disjoint spanning trees T1,,TkT_1,\ldots,T_k of GG satisfying dTi(v)dTj(v)ck|d_{T_i}(v)-d_{T_j}(v)|\leq c_k for all vV(G)v \in V(G) and i,j{1,,k}i,j \in \{1,\ldots,k\}. This resolves a conjecture of Kriesell.

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@article{arxiv.2110.13726,
  title  = {Globally balancing spanning trees},
  author = {Florian Hörsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13726},
  year   = {2022}
}
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