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The enumeration of odd spanning trees in graphs

Combinatorics 2026-02-10 v1

Abstract

A graph is odd if all of its vertices have odd degrees. In particular, an odd spanning tree in a connected graph is a spanning tree in which all vertices have odd degrees. In this paper we establish a unified technique to enumerate odd spanning trees of a graph GG in terms of a multivariable polynomial associated with GG and indeterminates {xi:viV(G)}\{x_{i}:v_i\in V(G)\}. As applications, the enumerative formulas for odd spanning trees in complete graphs, complete multipartite graphs, almost complete graphs, complete split graphs and Ferrers graphs are, respectively, derived from our work.

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@article{arxiv.2602.08179,
  title  = {The enumeration of odd spanning trees in graphs},
  author = {Shaohan Xu and Kexiang Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08179},
  year   = {2026}
}
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