BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: STAN//CS-TR-69-126 ENTRY:: November 27, 1995 ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science TITLE:: Complementary spanning trees TYPE:: Technical Report AUTHOR:: Dantzig, George B. DATE:: March 1969 PAGES:: 12 ABSTRACT:: Given a network G whose arcs partition into non-overlapping 'clubs' (sets) $R_i$, D. Ray Fulkerson has considered the problem of constructing a spanning tree such that no two of its arcs belong to (represent) the same club and has stated necessary and sufficient conditions for such trees to exist. When each club $R_i$ consists of exactly two arcs, we shall refer to each of the arc pair as the 'complement' of the other, and the representative tree as a complementary tree. Our objective is to prove the following theorem: If there exists one complementary tree, there exists at least two. NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19951127] END:: STAN//CS-TR-69-126