{"title":"Refinements of degree conditions for the existence of a spanning tree without small degree stems","authors":"Michitaka Furuya , Akira Saito , Shoichi Tsuchiya","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114307","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A spanning tree of a graph without vertices of degree 2 is called a <em>homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree</em> (or a <em>HIST</em>) of the graph. Albertson et al. (1990) <span><span>[1]</span></span> gave a minimum degree condition for the existence of a HIST, and recently, Ito and Tsuchiya (2022) <span><span>[11]</span></span> found a sharp degree-sum condition for the existence of a HIST. In this paper, we refine these results, and extend the first one to a spanning tree in which no vertex other than the endvertices has small degree.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X24004382","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A spanning tree of a graph without vertices of degree 2 is called a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (or a HIST) of the graph. Albertson et al. (1990) [1] gave a minimum degree condition for the existence of a HIST, and recently, Ito and Tsuchiya (2022) [11] found a sharp degree-sum condition for the existence of a HIST. In this paper, we refine these results, and extend the first one to a spanning tree in which no vertex other than the endvertices has small degree.
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