{ "id": "2405.15733", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-05-24T17:23:01.000Z", "updated": "2024-05-24T17:23:01.000Z", "title": "Embedding Nearly Spanning Trees", "authors": [ "Bruce Reed", "Maya Stein" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "The Erd\\H{o}s-S\\'os Conjecture states that every graph with average degree exceeding $k-1$ contains every tree with $k$ edges as a subgraph. We prove that there are $\\delta>0$ and $k_0\\in\\mathbb N$ such that the conjecture holds for every tree $T$ with $k \\ge k_0$ edges and every graph $G$ with $|V(G)| \\le (1+\\delta)|V(T)|$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-05-24T17:23:01.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "spanning trees", "conjecture states", "conjecture holds", "average degree exceeding" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }