Spanning \(k\)-trees and the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem
Very recently, using Meshulam's lemma, Blagojevi\'c proved a constrained version of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem for joins of bipartite spanning trees and wedge of spheres. Our main contribution extends his result from joins of bipartite spanning trees with wedges of spheres to joins of spanning \(k\)-trees with wedges of spheres. Our proof is elementary and avoids the topological machinery. We also discuss a homological variation of spanning \(k\)-trees and some Carath\'eodory-type results for them.
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