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Pietro K.C.
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NEW PROBLEM: MORE SPANNING TREES
« on: Sep 24th, 2002, 1:28pm » |
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Let G = (V, E) be an undirected grap, and consider the problem of finding out whether G has a spanning tree where every vertex has degree less than or equal to k.
Show that P is NP-complete.
Note: the degree referred to is the degree a vertex has in the spanning tree, not in the whole graph, because then all degrees would be predetermined, and P would be no fun at all.  For example, consider a triangle ABC, where sides are edges and vertices are - well, vertices. Then all nodes have degree two. However, in the spanning tree {(A,B),(B,C)}, A and C have degree 1.
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