{"title":"Extremal numbers of leaves for trees with fixed diameter and maximum degree","authors":"Xing Feng , Zejun Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.dam.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 1975, Lesniak established a lower bound on the number of leaves in trees with given order and diameter, which is sharp when the diameter is even. Qiao and Zhan later determined the exact minimum number of leaves in such trees. In this note, we determine both the minimum number and the maximum number of leaves for trees with given order, diameter and maximum degree.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50573,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Applied Mathematics","volume":"375 ","pages":"Pages 290-293"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Applied Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166218X25003221","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1975, Lesniak established a lower bound on the number of leaves in trees with given order and diameter, which is sharp when the diameter is even. Qiao and Zhan later determined the exact minimum number of leaves in such trees. In this note, we determine both the minimum number and the maximum number of leaves for trees with given order, diameter and maximum degree.
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