connected cubic multigraph on a fixed number of vertices can have and identifies the unique
graph that attains this minimum value. He conjectures that a generalized form of this
construction, which we here call a padded paddle graph, would be extremal for d-regular
multigraphs where d≥ 5 is odd. We prove that, indeed, the padded paddle minimises the
number of spanning trees, but this is true only when the number of vertices, n, is greater than …