Mader's tree-removability conjecture

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For k≥1k\ge 1 and any tree TT of order mm, let GG be a kk-connected graph with minimum degree δ(G)≥⌊3k/2⌋+m−1\delta(G)\ge \left\lfloor 3k/2\right\rfloor+m-1. A subtree T′T' is isomorphic to TT when T′≅TT'\cong T. Mader's tree-removability conjecture. Every such graph GG contains a subtree T′≅TT'\cong T such that G−V(T′)G-V(T') is kk-connected. This extends Mader's path-removability theorem from paths to arbitrary trees. The conjecture is known for paths, for k=1k=1, for particular families of trees, for 22-connected graphs, and for k≤3k\le 3; it remains open for k≥4k\ge 4.

References

Primary source

Hengzhe Li, Mingming Zhou, Shinya Fujita and Yaping Mao, “From Halin's Edge Removability to Matching Removability in k-Connected Graphs”, arXiv:2605.24035 (2026).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2511.12499, arXiv:2312.05886, arXiv:2310.18719, arXiv:2101.11777, arXiv:2011.03929.

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