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 with parts of size and has at most spanning trees, and that equality holds if and only if 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