Complete-graph extremality conjecture for mean subtree order

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Let GG be a graph with nn vertices, and let μ(G)\mu(G) denote its mean subtree order. Let KnK_n be the complete graph on nn vertices.

Complete-graph extremality conjecture. For every graph GG with nn vertices,

μ(G)≤μ(Kn).\mu(G)\le\mu(K_n).

This is the maximum part of the main extremal problem for mean subtree order. The source identifies it as open.

References

Primary source

Stijn Cambie, Jorik Jooken and Stephan Wagner, “On the extrema of the mean subtree order of graphs”, arXiv:2508.20593 (2025).

Additional references

12 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2502.12291, arXiv:2402.09254, arXiv:2007.03064, arXiv:1907.11328, arXiv:1811.02018, arXiv:1801.01225, arXiv:1610.08370, arXiv:1606.06370, arXiv:1411.0290, arXiv:1003.5444, arXiv:math/0607326.

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