Completely independent spanning trees in line graphs

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Abstract: Completely independent spanning trees in a graph G are spanning trees of G such that for any two distinct vertices of G, the paths between them in the spanning trees are pairwise edge-disjoint and internally vertex-disjoint. In this paper, we present a tight lower bound on the maximum number of completely independent spanning trees in L(G), where L(G) denotes the line graph of a graph G. Based on a new characterization of a graph with k completely independent spanning trees, we also show that for any complete graph Kn of order ngeq4, there are lfloorfracn+12floor completely independent spanning trees in L(Kn) where the number lfloorfracn+12floor is optimal, such that lfloorfracn+12floor completely independent spanning trees still exist in the graph obtained from L(Kn) by deleting any vertex (respectively, any induced path of order at most fracn2) for n=4 or odd ngeq5 (respectively, even ngeq6). Concerning the connectivity and the number of completely independent spanning trees, we moreover show the following, where delta(G) denotes the minimum degree of G. Every 2k-connected line graph L(G) has k completely independent spanning trees if G is not super edge-connected or delta(G)geq2k. Every (4k2)-connected line graph L(G) has k completely independent spanning trees if G is regular. Every (k2+2k1)-connected line graph L(G) with delta(G)geqk+1 has k completely independent spanning trees.









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