Spanning trees with many leaves: new lower bounds in terms of the number of vertices of degree 3 and at least 4

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Abstract: We prove, that every connected graph with s vertices of degree 3 and t vertices of degree at least~4 has a spanning tree with at least 2over5t+1over5s+alpha leaves, where alphage8over5. Moreover, alphage2 for all graphs besides three exclusions. All exclusion are regular graphs of degree~4, they are explicitly described in the paper. We present infinite series of graphs, containing only vertices of degrees~3 and~4, for which the maximal number of leaves in a spanning tree is equal for 2over5t+1over5s+2. Therefore we prove that our bound is tight.









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