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    The Merino–Welsh conjecture holds for series–parallel graphs

    Noble, Steven and Royle, G.F. (2014) The Merino–Welsh conjecture holds for series–parallel graphs. European Journal of Combinatorics 38 , pp. 24-35. ISSN 0195-6698.

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    Abstract

    The Merino–Welsh conjecture asserts that the number of spanning trees of a graph is no greater than the maximum of the numbers of totally cyclic orientations and acyclic orientations of that graph. We prove this conjecture for the class of series–parallel graphs.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Steven Noble
    Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2016 12:55
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:39
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/16344

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