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Let $G=(V(G), E(G))$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. For $k\geq2$ and given any subset $S\subseteq|V(G)|$ with $|S|=k$, if a graph $G$ of order $|V(G)|\geq k+1$ always has a spanning tree $T$ such that $S$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Tingyan Ma , Ligong Wang , Yang Hu

Minimal spanning trees on infinite vertex sets are investigated. A criterion for minimality of a spanning tree having a finite length is obtained, which generalizes the corresponding classical result for finite sets. It is given an analytic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-18 A. O. Ivanov , A. A. Tuzhilin

A classical result of Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi shows that every large $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2+\gamma)n$ contains all spanning trees of bounded degree. We generalised this result to loose spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Yaobin Chen , Allan Lo

It is proved that the restriction of a $k$ and $(k-1)$-component directed spanning forest of minimal weight to an atom of the subset algebra generated by the sets of vertices of trees of $k$-component minimal spanning forests is a tree. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Vasily Buslov

Computing a Euclidean minimum spanning tree of a set of points is a seminal problem in computational geometry and geometric graph theory. We combine it with another classical problem in graph drawing, namely computing a monotone geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Emilio Di Giacomo , Walter Didimo , Eleni Katsanou , Lena Schlipf , Antonios Symvonis , Alexander Wolff

For an integer k\ge2, a [2,k]-ST of a connected graph G is a spanning tree of G in which there are no vertices of degree between 2 and k. A [2,k]-ST is a natural extension of a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (HIST), which is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yibo Li , Fengming Dong , Huiqing Liu

A spanning tree with no vertices of degree 2 is called a Homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree\,(HIST). Based on a HIST embedded in the plane, a Halin graph is formed by connecting the leaves of the tree into a cycle following the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Guantao Chen , Songling Shan , Ping Yang

In real life, it is always an urge to reach our goal in minimum effort i.e., it should have a minimum constrained path. The path may be shortest route in practical life, either physical or electronic medium. The scenario is to represents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Sounak Sadhukhan , Samar Sen Sarma

For an integer $k\geq 2$, a spanning tree of a graph without vertices of degree from $2$ to $k$ is called a {\it $[2,k]$-ST} of the graph. The concept of $[2,k]$-STs is a natural extension of a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Michitaka Furuya , Shoichi Tsuchiya

A rainbow spanning tree in an edge-colored graph is a spanning tree in which each edge is a different color. Carraher, Hartke, and Horn showed that for $n$ and $C$ large enough, if $G$ is an edge-colored copy of $K_n$ in which each color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Paul Horn , Lauren M. Nelsen

For a connected graph $G$, a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ is called a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (HIST) if $T$ has no vertices of degree 2. Albertson {\em et al.} proved that it is $NP$-complete to decide whether a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Bingqian Gao , Huiqing Liu , Jing Zhao

Let $R$ and $B$ be two disjoint sets of points in the plane where the points of $R$ are colored red and the points of $B$ are colored blue, and let $n=|R\cup B|$. A bichromatic spanning tree is a spanning tree in the complete bipartite…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ahmad Biniaz , Prosenjit Bose , David Eppstein , Anil Maheshwari , Pat Morin , Michiel Smid

Let $k\ge 2$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$ with minimum degree $\delta$. A graph $G$ is said to have property $P(k, d)$ if it contains $k$ edge-disjoint spanning trees and an additional forest $F$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yongbin Gao , Ligong Wang

A k-tree is either a complete graph on (k+1) vertices or given a k-tree G' with n vertices, a k-tree G with (n+1) vertices can be constructed by introducing a new vertex v and picking a k-clique Q in G' and then joining each vertex u in Q.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-25 Suresh Badarla , R Rama

The celebrated result of Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi states that for any $\varepsilon>0$, there exists $0<c<1$, such that for all sufficiently large $n$, every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $\delta(G)\geq(1/2+\varepsilon)n$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jun Yan

We present a new characterization of $k$-trees based on their reduced clique graphs and $(k+1)$-line graphs, which are block graphs. We explore structural properties of these two classes, showing that the number of clique-trees of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Lilian Markenzon , Allana S. S. Oliveira , Cybele T. M. Vinagre

We show that the spanning tree degree enumerator polynomial of a connected graph $G$ is a real stable polynomial if and only if $G$ is distance-hereditary.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Danila Cherkashin , Fedor Petrov , Pavel Prozorov

We give an $O(g^{1/2} n^{3/2} + g^{3/2} n^{1/2})$-size extended formulation for the spanning tree polytope of an $n$-vertex graph embedded on a surface of genus $g$, improving on the known $O(n^2 + g n)$-size extended formulations following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Samuel Fiorini , Tony Huynh , Gwenaël Joret , Kanstantsin Pashkovich

The minimal spanning forest on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ is known to consist of a single tree for $d \leq 2$ and is conjectured to consist of infinitely many trees for large $d$. In this paper, we prove that there is a single tree for quasi-planar…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Charles M. Newman , Vincent Tassion , Wei Wu

Let $\mathcal{G}_{n,r,s}$ denote a uniformly random $r$-regular $s$-uniform hypergraph on the vertex set $\{1,2,\ldots, n\}$. We establish a threshold result for the existence of a spanning tree in $\mathcal{G}_{n,r,s}$, restricting to $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Catherine Greenhill , Mikhail Isaev , Gary Liang