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The Ferrers bound for spanning trees in bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2026-03-19 v1

Abstract

We prove Ehrenborg's conjecture that every connected bipartite graph GG with parts of size mm and nn has at most 1mnvV(G)deg(v)\frac{1}{mn}\prod_{v\in V(G)} \operatorname{deg}(v) spanning trees, and that equality holds if and only if GG is a Ferrers graph. The proof is fully formalized in Lean 4.

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@article{arxiv.2603.17997,
  title  = {The Ferrers bound for spanning trees in bipartite graphs},
  author = {Boon Suan Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17997},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages

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