English

Formulas counting spanning trees in line graphs and their extensions

Combinatorics 2019-07-18 v1

Abstract

For any connected multigraph G=(V,E)G=(V,E) and any MEM\subseteq E, if MM induces an acyclic subgraph of GG and removing all edges in MM yields a subgraph of GG whose components are complete graphs, a formula for τG(M)\tau_G(M) is obtained, where τG(M)\tau_G(M) is the number of spanning trees in GG which contain all edges in MM. Applying this result, we can easily obtain a formula for the number of spanning trees in the line graph or the middle graph of an arbitrary graph. Applying this result, we also show that for any connected graph GG with a clique UU which is a cut-set of GG, the number of spanning trees in GG has a factorization which is analogous to a property of the chromatic polynomial of GG.

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@article{arxiv.1907.07376,
  title  = {Formulas counting spanning trees in line graphs and their extensions},
  author = {Fengming Dong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07376},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

26 pages, 9 figures and 18 references. Main results have been presented in Fuzhou University, Minan Normal University and Northwestern Polytechnical University

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