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Trees with a given number of leaves and the maximal number of maximum independent sets

  • Dmitriy S. Taletskii EMAIL logo and Dmitriy S. Malyshev
Published/Copyright: April 7, 2021

Abstract

A complete description of trees with maximal possible number of maximum independent sets among all n-vertex trees with exactly l leaves is obtained. For all values of the parameters n and l the extremal tree is unique and is the result of merging the endpoints of l simple paths.


Note

Originally published in Diskretnaya Matematika (2020) 32,№2, 71–84 (in Russian).


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Received: 2018-12-06
Accepted: 2020-05-14
Published Online: 2021-04-07
Published in Print: 2021-04-27

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