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A spanning subgraph $F$ of a graph $G$ is called perfect if $F$ is a forest, the degree $d_F(x)$ of each vertex $x$ in $F$ is odd, and each tree of $F$ is an induced subgraph of $G$. We provide a short proof of the following theorem of A.D.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Gregory Gutin

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. For $i\in \{0,1\}$ and a connected graph $G$, a spanning forest $F$ of $G$ is called an $i$-perfect forest if every tree in $F$ is an induced subgraph of $G$ and exactly $i$ vertices of $F$ have even…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Gregory Gutin , Anders Yeo

A spanning subgraph $F$ of a graph $G$ is called {\em perfect} if $F$ is a forest, the degree $d_F(x)$ of each vertex $x$ in $F$ is odd, and each tree of $F$ is an induced subgraph of $G$. Alex Scott (Graphs \& Combin., 2001) proved that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Gregory Gutin , Anders Yeo

In 1966, Cummins introduced the "tree graph": the tree graph $\mathbf{T}(G)$ of a graph $G$ (possibly infinite) has all its spanning trees as vertices, and distinct such trees correspond to adjacent vertices if they differ in just one edge,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Suresh Dara , S. M. Hegde , Venkateshwarlu Deva , S. B. Rao , Thomas Zaslavsky

A pure pair in a graph $G$ is a pair $(Z_1,Z_2)$ of disjoint sets of vertices such that either every vertex in $Z_1$ is adjacent to every vertex in $Z_2$, or there are no edges between $Z_1$ and $Z_2$. With Maria Chudnovsky, we recently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

We investigate the tractability of a simple fusion of two fundamental structures on graphs, a spanning tree and a perfect matching. Specifically, we consider the following problem: given an edge-weighted graph, find a minimum-weight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

A linear forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths. The Linear Arboricity Conjecture states that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil(\Delta+1)/2\rceil$ linear forests. We prove that $\Delta/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser

We consider classes of graphs, which we call thick graphs, that have the vertices of a corresponding thin graph replaced by cliques and the edges replaced by cobipartite graphs In particular, we consider the case of thick forests, which we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Martin Dyer , Haiko Müller

A connected graph G is called matching covered if every edge of G is contained in a perfect matching. Perfect matching width is a width parameter for matching covered graphs based on a branch decomposition. It was introduced by Norine and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Meike Hatzel , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Wiederrecht

In this paper, we introduce the notion of Cartesian Forest, which generalizes Cartesian Trees, in order to deal with partially ordered sequences. We show that algorithms that solve both exact and approximate Cartesian Tree Matching can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bastien Auvray , Julien David , Richard Groult , Thierry Lecroq

We deal with the problem of decomposing a complete geometric graph into plane star-forests. In particular, we disprove a recent conjecture by Pach, Saghafian and Schnider by constructing for each $n$ a complete geometric graph on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Todor Antić , Jelena Glišić , Milan Milivojčević

We call a tree $T$ is \emph{even} if every pair of its leaves is joined by a path of even length. Jackson and Yoshimoto~[J. Graph Theory, 2024] conjectured that every $r$-regular nonbipartite connected graph $G$ has a spanning even tree.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Jiangdong Ai , Zhipeng Gao , Xiangzhou Liu , Jun Yue

We define an algorithm k which takes a connected graph G on a totally ordered vertex set and returns an increasing tree R (which is not necessarily a subtree of G). We characterize the set of graphs G such that k(G)=R. Because this set has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gus Wiseman

We prove that the free uniform spanning forest of any bounded degree proper plane graph is connected almost surely, answering a question of Benjamini, Lyons, Peres and Schramm. We provide a quantitative form of this result, calculating the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Tom Hutchcroft , Asaf Nachmias

Fast exact algorithms are known for Hamiltonian paths in undirected and directed bipartite graphs through elegant though involved algorithms that are quite different from each other. We devise algorithms that are simple and similar to each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 V. Arvind , Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta , Asif Khan

Given a graph, we can form a spanning forest by first sorting the edges in some order, and then only keep edges incident to a vertex which is not incident to any previous edge. The resulting forest is dependent on the ordering of the edges,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Steve Butler , Misa Hamanaka , Marie Hardt

An order-theoretic forest is a countable partial order such that the set of elements larger than any element is linearly ordered. It is an order-theoretic tree if any two elements have an upper-bound. The order type of a branch can be any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bruno Courcelle

In this paper, a new concept in graphs namely well-f-coveredness is introduced. We characterize all graphs with such property, whose maximum induced forests are of boundary order. Also we prove several propositions concerning with obtaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Reza Jafarpour-Golzari

An edge subset $S$ of a connected graph $G$ is called an anti-Kekul\'{e} set if $G-S$ is connected and has no perfect matching. We can see that a connected graph $G$ has no anti-Kekul\'{e} set if and only if each spanning tree of $G$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Baoyindureng Wu , Heping Zhang

An $\alpha$-thin tree $T$ of a graph $G$ is a spanning tree such that every cut of $G$ has at most an $\alpha$ proportion of its edges in $T$. The Thin Tree Conjecture proposes that there exists a function $f$ such that for any $\alpha >…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Alice Moayyedi
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