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Let $G$ be a graph with order $p$, size $q$ and component number $\omega$. For each $i$ between $p - \omega$ and $q$, let ${\mathcal C}_{i}(G)$ be the family of spanning $i$-edge subgraphs of $G$ with exactly $\omega$ components. For an integer-valued graphical invariant $\varphi$, if $H \rightarrow H^{\prime }$ is an adjacent edge transformation (AET) implies $|\varphi (H) - \varphi (H^{\prime })| \le 1$, then $\varphi$ is said to be continuous with respect to AET. Similarly define the continuity of $\varphi$ with respect to simple edge transformation (SET). Let $M_{j}(\varphi )$ and $m_{j}(\varphi )$ be the invariants defined by $M_{j}(\varphi )(H) = \max _{T \in {\mathcal C}_{j}(H)} \varphi (T)$, $m_{j}(\varphi )(H) = \min _{T \in {\mathcal C}_{j}(H)} \varphi (T)$. It is proved that both $M_{p - \omega }(\varphi )$ and $m_{p - \omega }(\varphi )$ interpolate over $\mathbf{{\mathcal C}_{i}(G)}$, $p - \omega \le i \le q$, if $\varphi$ is continuous with respect to AET, and that $M_{j}(\varphi )$ and $m_{j}(\varphi )$ interpolate over $\mathbf{{\mathcal C}_{i}(G)}$, $p - \omega \le j \le i \le q$, if $\varphi$ is continuous with respect to SET. In this way a lot of known interpolation results, including a theorem due to Schuster etc., are generalized.
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