Abstract
This article investigates some properties of the number of subtrees of a tree with given degree sequence. These results are used to characterize trees with the given degree sequence that have the largest number of subtrees, which generalize the recent results of Kirk and Wang (SIAM J Discrete Math 22 (2008), 985-995). These trees coincide with those which were proven by Wang and independently Zhang et al. (2008) to minimize the Wiener index. We also provide a partial ordering of the extremal trees with different degree sequences, some extremal results follow as corollaries.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 280-295 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Graph Theory |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2013 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Geometry and Topology
Keywords
- degree sequence
- majorization
- subtree
- tree