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On the number of $r$-matchings in a Tree

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 نشر من قبل Younjin Kim
 تاريخ النشر 2014
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An $r$-matching in a graph $G$ is a collection of edges in $G$ such that the distance between any two edges is at least $r$. A $2$-matching is also called an induced matching. In this paper, we estimate the maximum number of $r$-matchings in a tree of fixed order. We also prove that the $n$-vertex path has the maximum number of induced matchings among all $n$-vertex trees.



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