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Structure of spanning trees on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket

Mathematical Physics 2013-12-12 v1 math.MP

Abstract

Consider spanning trees on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket SG(n) where stage nn is a non-negative integer. For any given vertex xx of SG(n), we derive rigorously the probability distribution of the degree j{1,2,3,4}j \in \{1,2,3,4\} at the vertex and its value in the infinite nn limit. Adding up such probabilities of all the vertices divided by the number of vertices, we obtain the average probability distribution of the degree jj. The corresponding limiting distribution ϕj\phi_j gives the average probability that a vertex is connected by 1, 2, 3 or 4 bond(s) among all the spanning tree configurations. They are rational numbers given as ϕ1=10957/40464\phi_1=10957/40464, ϕ2=6626035/13636368\phi_2=6626035/13636368, ϕ3=2943139/13636368\phi_3=2943139/13636368, ϕ4=124895/4545456\phi_4=124895/4545456.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.0721,
  title  = {Structure of spanning trees on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket},
  author = {Shu-Chiuan Chang and Lung-Chi Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0721},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

32 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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