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The number of trees in a graph

Combinatorics 2015-11-24 v1

Abstract

Let TT be a tree with tt edges. We show that the number of isomorphic (labeled) copies of TT in a graph G=(V,E)G = (V,E) of minimum degree at least tt is at least 2EvV(d(v)t+1)(t1)d(v)2E.2|E| \prod_{v \in V} (d(v) - t + 1)^{\frac{(t-1)d(v)}{2|E|}}. Consequently, any nn-vertex graph of average degree dd and minimum degree at least tt contains at least nd(dt+1)t1nd(d-t+1)^{t-1} isomorphic (labeled) copies of TT. This answers a question of Dellamonica et. al. (where the above statement was proved when TT is the path with three edges) while extending an old result of Erd\H os and Simonovits.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07274,
  title  = {The number of trees in a graph},
  author = {Dhruv Mubayi and Jacques Verstraete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07274},
  year   = {2015}
}