On the spanning tree polyhedron (Q1122482)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4106607
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On the spanning tree polyhedron
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4106607

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    On the spanning tree polyhedron (English)
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    Given an arbitrary simple finite graph, we can define the convex hull of the incidence vectors of all spanning trees. The paper gives an alternative proof of a theorem of Fulkerson, which gives an inequality representation of the above-defined polyhedron. The proof depends on an easy spanning-tree algorithm applied to the original graph. Using a lemma that says that for a 2-connected graph for arbitrary two edges, there exist two spanning trees which differ exactly in these two edges; also the facets of the polyhedron are characterized.
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    spanning trees
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    polyhedron
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    2-connected graph
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    facets
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