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arxiv: 1006.5427 · v1 · submitted 2010-06-28 · 🧮 math.CO

The number of F-matchings in almost every tree is a zero residue

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For graphs F and G an F-matching in G is a subgraph of G consisting of pairwise vertex disjoint copies of F. The number of F-matchings in G is denoted by s(F,G). We show that for every fixed positive integer m and every fixed tree F, the probability that s(F,T_n) = 0 mod m, where T_n is a random labeled tree with n vertices, tends to one exponentially fast as n grows to infinity. A similar result is proven for induced F-matchings. This generalizes a recent result of Wagner who showed that the number of independent sets in a random labeled tree is almost surely a zero residue.

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