Mathematics – Combinatorics
Scientific paper
2007-07-18
Mathematics
Combinatorics
25 pages, 27 Figures
Scientific paper
It 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.
Bonsma Paul
Zickfeld Florian
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