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Construction and characterization of graphs whose each spanning tree has a perfect matching

Combinatorics 2016-02-02 v1

Abstract

An edge subset SS of a connected graph GG is called an anti-Kekul\'{e} set if GSG-S is connected and has no perfect matching. We can see that a connected graph GG has no anti-Kekul\'{e} set if and only if each spanning tree of GG has a perfect matching. In this paper, by applying Tutte's 1-factor theorem and structure of minimally 2-connected graphs, we characterize all graphs whose each spanning tree has a perfect matching In addition, we show that if GG is a connected graph of order 2n2n for a positive integer n4n\geq 4 and size mm whose each spanning tree has a perfect matching, then m(n+1)n2m\leq \frac{(n+1)n} 2, with equality if and only if GKnK1G\cong K_n\circ K_1.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00196,
  title  = {Construction and characterization of graphs whose each spanning tree has a perfect matching},
  author = {Baoyindureng Wu and Heping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00196},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages

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