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We provide a finite equational presentation of graphs of treewidth at most three, solving an instanceof an open problem by Courcelle and Engelfriet. We use a syntax generalising series-parallel expressions, denoting graphs with a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Amina Doumane , Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

A decomposition of a graph is a set of subgraphs whose edges partition those of $G$. The 3-decomposition conjecture posed by Hoffmann-Ostenhof in 2011 states that every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Oliver Bachtler , Sven O. Krumke

Diestel and Leader have characterised connected graphs that admit a normal spanning tree via two classes of forbidden minors. One class are Halin's $(\aleph_0,\aleph_1)$-graphs: bipartite graphs with bipartition $(\mathbb{N},B)$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Nathan Bowler , Stefan Geschke , Max Pitz

We show that every connected $k$-chromatic graph contains at least $k^{k-2}$ spanning trees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Jacob W. Cooper , Adam Kabela , Daniel Král' , Théo Pierron

Halin [1965] proved that if a graph has $n$ many pairwise disjoint rays for each $n$ then it has infinitely many pairwise disjoint rays. We analyze the complexity of this and other similar results in terms of computable and proof theoretic…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-29 James S. Barnes , Jun Le Goh , Richard A. Shore

We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Max Pitz

In 1989, Zehavi and Itai conjectured that every $k$-connected graph contains $k$ independent spanning trees rooted at any prescribed vertex $r$. That is, for each vertex $v$, the unique $r$-$v$ paths within these $k$ spanning trees are…

We prove that if a unimodular random rooted graph is recurrent, the number of ends of its uniform spanning tree is almost surely equal to the number of ends of the graph. Together with previous results in the transient case, this completely…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Diederik van Engelenburg , Tom Hutchcroft

A classical result by Otter shows that the complete graph has an exponential number of non-isomorphic spanning trees. This was recently extended by Lee to every almost regular graph of sufficiently large degree. In this paper, we consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Veronica Bitonti , Lukas Michel , Alex Scott

We show that every connected graph $G$ has a tree decomposition indexed by a tree $T$ such that $T$ is a subgraph of $G$ and the width of the tree decomposition is bounded from above by a function of the pathwidth of $G$. This answers a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Romain Bourneuf , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Martin Milanič , Michał Pilipczuk

We give a descriptive construction of trees for multi-ended graphs, which yields yet another proof of Stallings' theorem on ends of groups. Even though our proof is, in principle, not very different from already existing proofs and it draws…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Anush Tserunyan

We prove that deciding whether the edge set of a graph can be partitionned into two spanning trees with orientation constraints is NP-complete. If P $\neq$ NP then this disproves a conjecture of Recski.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Olivier Durand de Gevigney

We show that the square of every connected $S(K_{1,4})$-free graph satisfying a matching condition has a $2$-connected spanning subgraph of maximum degree at most~$3$. Furthermore, we characterise trees whose square has a $2$-connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Adam Kabela , Jakub Teska

A tree is said to be even if for every pair of distinct leaves, the length of the unique path between them is even. In this paper we discuss the problem of determining whether an input graph has a spanning even tree. Hofmann and Walsh…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yasuko Matsui , Atsuki Nagao , Hirotaka Ono , Kazuhisa Seto

Hoffmann-Ostenhof's Conjecture states that the edge set of every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a matching and a $2$-regular subgraph. In this paper, we show that the conjecture holds for claw-free subcubic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Elham Aboomahigir , Milad Ahanjideh , Saieed Akbari

In 2019, Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k asked whether every connected graph $G$ has a tree decomposition $(T, \mathcal{B})$ so that $T$ is a subgraph of $G$ and the width of $(T, \mathcal{B})$ is bounded by a function of the treewidth of $G$. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Pablo Blanco , Linda Cook , Meike Hatzel , Claire Hilaire , Freddie Illingworth , Rose McCarty

We prove that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree not 2 has a spanning tree with at least ${1\over 4}(s-2)+2$ leaves. Let $G$ be a be a connected graph of girth $g$ with $v>1$ vertices. Let maximal chain of successively…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Anton Bankevich , Dmitri Karpov

We settle the Path Decomposition Conjecture (P.D.C.) due to Tibor Gallai for minimally connected graphs, i.e. trees. We use this validity for trees and settle the P. D. C. using induction on the number of edges for all connected graphs. We…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Dhananjay P. Mehendale

We prove the following 30-year old conjecture of Gy\H{o}ri and Tuza: the edges of every $n$-vertex graph $G$ can be decomposed into complete graphs $C_1,\ldots,C_\ell$ of orders two and three such that $|C_1|+\cdots+|C_\ell|\le…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Daniel Král' , Bernard Lidický , Taísa L. Martins , Yanitsa Pehova

Hoffmann-Ostenhof's Conjecture states that states that the edge set of every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a matching and a $2$-regular subgraph. In this paper, we show that the conjecture holds for claw-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Milad Ahanjideh , Elham Aboomahigir