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Trees and co-trees with constant maximum degree in planar 3-connected graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2013-12-17 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

This paper considers the conjecture by Gr\"unbaum that every planar 3-connected graph has a spanning tree TT such that both TT and its co-tree have maximum degree at most 3. Here, the co-tree of TT is the spanning tree of the dual obtained by taking the duals of the non-tree edges. While Gr\"unbaum's conjecture remains open, we show that every planar 3-connected graph has a spanning tree TT such that both TT and its co-tree have maximum degree at most 5. It can be found in linear time.

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@article{arxiv.1312.4101,
  title  = {Trees and co-trees with constant maximum degree in planar 3-connected graphs},
  author = {Therese Biedl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4101},
  year   = {2013}
}
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