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In this paper, we investigate the structural properties of trees and bipartite graphs through the lens of topological indices and combinatorial graph theory. We focus on the First and Second Hyper-Zagreb indices, $HM_1(G)$ and $HM_2(G)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Jasem Hamoud

Motivated by Hadwiger's conjecture and related problems for list-coloring, we study graphs $H$ for which every graph with minimum degree at least $|V(H)|-1$ contains $H$ as a minor. We prove that a large class of apex-outerplanar graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Chun-Hung Liu , Youngho Yoo

Let $G$ be a graph and $h: E(G)\rightarrow [0,1]$ be a function. For any two positive integers $a$ and $b$ with $a\leq b$, a fractional $[a,b]$-factor of $G$ with the indicator function $h$ is a spanning subgraph with vertex set $V(G)$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Ao Fan , Ruifang Liu , Guoyan Ao

We propose the following conjecture: For every fixed $\alpha\in [0,\frac 13)$, each graph of minimum degree at least $(1+\alpha)\frac k2$ and maximum degree at least $2(1-\alpha)k$ contains each tree with $k$ edges as a subgraph. Our main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Guido Besomi , Matías Pavez-Signé , Maya Stein

We show that a randomly perturbed digraph, where we start with a dense digraph $D_\alpha$ and add a small number of random edges to it, will typically contain a fixed orientation of a bounded degree spanning tree. This answers a question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Patryk Morawski , Kalina Petrova

We find precise asymptotic estimates for the number of planar maps and graphs with a condition on the minimum degree, and properties of random graphs from these classes. In particular we show that the size of the largest tree attached to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Marc Noy , Lander Ramos

In a paper from 2001 (Journal of the LMS), Diestel and Leader offered a proof that a connected graph has a normal spanning tree if and only if it does not contain a minor from two specific forbidden classes of graphs, all of cardinality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Max Pitz

We prove that every amenable one-ended Cayley graph has an invariant spanning tree of one end. More generally, for any 1-ended amenable unimodular random graph we construct a factor of iid percolation (jointly unimodular subgraph) that is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Adam Timar

We prove Ehrenborg's conjecture that every connected bipartite graph $G$ with parts of size $m$ and $n$ has at most $\frac{1}{mn}\prod_{v\in V(G)} \operatorname{deg}(v)$ spanning trees, and that equality holds if and only if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Boon Suan Ho

In this paper, we address the Ehrenborg's conjecture which proposes that for any bipartite graph the number of spanning trees does not exceed the product of the degrees of the vertices divided by the product of the sizes of the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Albina Volkova

The strong thin tree conjecture states that every $k$-edge-connected graph $G$ contains an $O(1/k)$-thin spanning tree, meaning a spanning tree which contains at most an $O(1/k)$ fraction of the edges across each cut in $G$. This conjecture…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nathan Klein , Neil Olver , Zi Song Yeoh

For a fixed graph H with t vertices, an H-factor of a graph G with n vertices, where t divides n, is a collection of vertex disjoint (not necessarily induced) copies of H in G covering all vertices of G. We prove that for a fixed tree T on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Deepak Bal , Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich , Po-Shen Loh

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative real edge lengths and an integer parameter $k$, the Min-Max k-Tree Cover problem seeks to find a set of at most $k$ subtrees of $G$, such that the union of the trees is the vertex set $V$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Syamantak Das , Lavina Jain , Nikhil Kumar

An $[a,b]$-factor of a graph $G$ is a spanning subgraph $H$ such that $a\leq d_{H}(v)\leq b$ for each $v\in V(G)$. In this paper, we provide spectral conditions for the existence of an odd $[1,b]$-factor in a connected graph with minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Dandan Fan , Huiqiu Lin , Hongliang Lu

We suggest two related conjectures dealing with the existence of spanning irregular subgraphs of graphs. The first asserts that any $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices contains a spanning subgraph in which the number of vertices of each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Noga Alon , Fan Wei

We give an Ore-type condition sufficient for a graph G to have a spanning tree with small degrees and with few leaves.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Eduardo Rivera-Campo

We prove that for any $t\ge 3$ there exist constants $c>0$ and $n_0$ such that any $d$-regular $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $t\mid n\geq n_0$ and second largest eigenvalue in absolute value $\lambda$ satisfying $\lambda\le c d^{t}/n^{t-1}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Jie Han , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Patrick Morris , Yury Person

For a graph $G$, let $a(G)$ denote the maximum size of a subset of vertices that induces a forest. We prove the following. 1. Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$, maximum degree $\Delta>0$ and maximum clique size $\omega$. Then \[ a(G) \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Shimon Kogan

Let $G$ be a graph and let $f$ be a positive integer-valued function on $V(G)$ satisfying $2m\le f\le b$, where $b$ and $m$ are two positive integers with $b\ge 4m^2$. In this paper, we show that if $G$ is $b^2$-tough and $|V(G)|\ge b^2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Morteza Hasanvand

The degree-based entropy of a graph is defined as the Shannon entropy based on the information functional that associates the vertices of the graph with the corresponding degrees. In this paper, we study extremal problems of finding the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Yanni Dong , Maximilien Gadouleau , Pengfei Wan , Shenggui Zhang