Paper 2, Section II, 17 G
(a) Define a tree and what it means for a graph to be acyclic. Show that if is an acyclic graph on vertices then . [You may use the fact that a spanning tree on vertices has edges.]
(b) Show that any 3-regular graph on vertices contains a cycle of length . Hence show that there exists such that every 3-regular graph on more than vertices must contain two cycles with disjoint vertex sets.
(c) An unfriendly partition of a graph is a partition , where , such that every vertex has and every has . Show that every graph with has an unfriendly partition.
(d) A friendly partition of a graph is a partition , where , such that every vertex has and every has . Give an example of a 3-regular graph (on at least 1 vertex) that does not have a friendly partition. Using part (b), show that for large enough every 3-regular graph with has a friendly partition.