2016/06/21 by Zoeram, Hamed Ghasemian
#05C05 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.06663
A tree with at most k leaves is called k-ended tree, and a tree with exactly k leaves is called k-end tree, where a leaf is a vertex of degree one. Contraction of a graph G along the edge e means deleting the edge e and identifying its end vertices and deleting all edges between every two vertex except one edge to gain again a simple graph and is denoted bye G/e. In this paper we prove some theorems related to a graph and its contraction. For example we prove the following theorem. If G is a connected graph that has a spanning k-end tree and |V (G)| > K + 1 then there exist an edge e such G/e has a spanning k-end tree.