Spanning k-trees of bipartite graphs

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A tree is called a k-tree if its maximum degree is at most k. We prove the following theorem. Let k ≥ 2 be an integer, and G be a connected bipartite graph with bipartition (A,B) such that |A| ≤ |B| ≤ (k−1)|A| + 1. If σk(G) ≥ |B|, then G has a spanning k-tree, where σk(G) denotes the minimum degree sum of k independent vertices of G. Moreover, the condition on σk(G) is sharp. It was shown by Win (Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg, 43, 263–267, 1975) that if a connected graph H satisfies σk(H) ≥ |H|−1, then H has a spanning k-tree. Thus our theorem shows that the condition becomes much weaker if the graph is bipartite.

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Kano, M., Suzuki, K., Ozeki, K., Tsugaki, M., & Yamashita, T. (2015). Spanning k-trees of bipartite graphs. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.37236/3628

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