An end-faithful spanning tree counterexample

Paul Seymour; Robin Thomas

doi:10.1016/0012-365X(91)90344-2

An end-faithful spanning tree counterexample

Paul Seymour
, Robin Thomas

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Abstract

We find an infinitely-connected graph in which every spanning tree has a 2-way infinite path. This disproves Halin's well-known 'end-faithful spanning tree' conjecture, and also disproves a recent conjecture of Širáň.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	321-330
Number of pages	10
Journal	Discrete Mathematics
Volume	95
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(91)90344-2
State	Published - Dec 3 1991
Externally published	Yes

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Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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