Spanning trees and spanning closed walks with small degrees

Let G be a graph and let f be a positive integer-valued function on $V(G)$. In this paper, we show that if for all $S?V(G)$, $\omega (G?S)<{\sum }_{v\in S}(f(v)?2)+2+\omega (G[S])$, then G has a spanning tree T containing an arbitrary given matching such that for each vertex v, $d_T(v)\le f(v)$, where $\omega (G?S)$ denotes the number of components of $G?S$ and $\omega (G[S])$ denotes the number of components of the induced subgraph $G[S]$ with the vertex set S. This is an improvement of several results. Next, we prove that if for all $S?V(G)$, $\omega (G?S)\le {\sum }_{v\in S}(f(v)?1)+1$, then G admits a spanning closed walk passing through the edges of an arbitrary given matching meeting each vertex v at most $f(v)$ times. This result solves a long-standing conjecture due to Jackson and Wormald (1990).