‎A tree containing exactly two non-pendant vertices is called a double-star‎. ‎Let $k_1$ and $k_2$ be two positive integers‎. ‎The double-star with degree sequence $(k_1+1‎, ‎k_2+1‎, ‎1‎, ‎ldots‎, ‎1)$ is denoted by $S_{k_1‎, ‎k_2}$‎. ‎It is known that a cubic graph has an $S_{1,1}$-decomposition if and only if it contains a perfect matching‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we study the $S_{1,2}$-decomposit...

A k-tree is a tree with maximum degree at most k. In this paper, we give a degree sum condition for a graph to have a spanning k-tree in which specified vertices have degree less than k. We denote by σk(G) the minimum value of the degree sum of k independent vertices in a graph G. Let k ≥ 3 and s ≥ 0 be integers, and suppose G is a connected graph and σk(G) ≥ |V (G)|+s−1. Then for any s specifi...

The prime graph $Gamma(G)$ of a group $G$ is a graph with vertex set $pi(G)$, the set of primes dividing the order of $G$, and two distinct vertices $p$ and $q$ are adjacent by an edge written $psim q$ if there is an element in $G$ of order $pq$. Let $pi(G)={p_{1},p_{2},...,p_{k}}$. For $pinpi(G)$, set $deg(p):=|{q inpi(G)| psim q}|$, which is called the degree of $p$. We also set $D(G):...

We prove a result on the length of a longest cycle in a graph on n vertices that contains a 2-factor and satisfies d(u)+ d(v)+d(w)~> n + 2 for every triple u, v, w of independent vertices. As a corollary we obtain the following improvement of a conjecture of H/iggkvist (1992): Let G be a 2-connected graph on n vertices where every pair of nonadjacent vertices has degree sum at least n-k and ass...

Asymptotic formulas are derived for the number of symmetries in several types of unlabeled trees with vertices of restricted degree. The trees are d-trees whose vertices have degree at most d and (1, d)-trees whose vertices have degree 1 or d. These results together with similar results for the number of such trees provide asymptotic formulas for the expected number of symmetries in these trees.

A circuit graph (G,C) is a 2-connected plane graph G with an outer cycle C such that from each inner vertex v, there are three disjoint paths to C . In this paper, we shall show that a circuit graph with n vertices has a 3-tree (i.e., a spanning tree with maximum degree at most 3) with at most n−7 3 vertices of degree 3. Our estimation for the number of vertices of degree 3 is sharp. Using this...