Spanning Trees with Many Leaves in Graphs without Diamonds and Blossoms

dc.creatorBonsma, Paul
dc.creatorZickfeld, Florian
dc.date2007-07-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:19:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:19:04Z
dc.descriptionIt is known that graphs on n vertices with minimum degree at least 3 have spanning trees with at least n/4+2 leaves and that this can be improved to (n+4)/3 for cubic graphs without the diamond K_4-e as a subgraph. We generalize the second result by proving that every graph with minimum degree at least 3, without diamonds and certain subgraphs called blossoms, has a spanning tree with at least (n+4)/3 leaves, and generalize this further by allowing vertices of lower degree. We show that it is necessary to exclude blossoms in order to obtain a bound of the form n/3+c. We use the new bound to obtain a simple FPT algorithm, which decides in O(m)+O^*(6.75^k) time whether a graph of size m has a spanning tree with at least k leaves. This improves the best known time complexity for MAX LEAF SPANNING TREE.
dc.description25 pages, 27 Figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2760
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2760
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/134644
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05C05; 05C35; 05C85; 68R10
dc.titleSpanning Trees with Many Leaves in Graphs without Diamonds and Blossoms
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