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In this paper, a new concept in graphs namely well-f-coveredness is introduced. We characterize all graphs with such property, whose maximum induced forests are of boundary order. Also we prove several propositions concerning with obtaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Reza Jafarpour-Golzari

Counting the number of spanning trees in specific classes of graphs has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In this note, we present unified proofs and generalizations of several results obtained in the 2020s. The main method is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Danila Cherkashin , Pavel Prozorov

The independence polynomial of a graph $G$ is \[I(G,x)=\sum\limits_{k\ge 0}i_k(G)x^k,\] where $i_k(G)$ denotes the number of independent sets of $G$ of size $k$ (note that $i_0(G)=1$). In this paper we show a new method to prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Ferenc Bencs

Cayley's formula is a fundamental result in combinatorics that counts the number of labeled trees on n vertices. While existing proofs use approaches such as Prufer sequences and the Matrix-Tree Theorem, we give a combinatorial proof that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Helia Karisani , Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli

Reciprocal best matches play an important role in numerous applications in computational biology, in particular as the basis of many widely used tools for orthology assessment. Nevertheless, very little is known about their mathematical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-30 Manuela Geiß , Peter F. Stadler , Marc Hellmuth

We give a formula for counting tree modules for the quiver S_g with g loops and one vertex in terms of tree modules on its universal cover. This formula, along with work of Helleloid and Rodriguez-Villegas, is used to show that the number…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Ryan Kinser

We use a recently found generalization of the Cauchy-Binet theorem to give a new proof of the Chebotarev-Shamis forest theorem telling that det(1+L) is the number of rooted spanning forests in a finite simple graph G with Laplacian L. More…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-19 Oliver Knill

We prove that in both the free and the wired uniform spanning forest (FUSF and WUSF) of any unimodular random rooted network (in particular, of any Cayley graph), it is impossible to distinguish the connected components of the forest from…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Tom Hutchcroft , Asaf Nachmias

Construction of phylogenetic trees and networks for extant species from their characters represents one of the key problems in phylogenomics. While solution to this problem is not always uniquely defined and there exist multiple methods for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-10 Nikita Alexeev , Max A. Alekseyev

A result about spanning forests for graphs yields a short proof of Krebes's theorem concerning embedded tangles in links.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Daniel S. Silver , Susan G. Williams

Suppose $G$ is a tree. Graham's "Tree Reconstruction Conjecture" states that $G$ is uniquely determined by the integer sequence $|G|$, $|L(G)|$, $|L(L(G))|$, $|L(L(L(G)))|$, $\ldots$, where $L(H)$ denotes the line graph of the graph $H$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Joshua Cooper , Bill Kay , Anton Swifton

The degree chromatic polynomial $Pm(G,k)$ of a graph $G$ counts the number of $k$-colorings in which no vertex has $m$ adjacent vertices of its same color. We prove Humpert and Martin's conjecture on the leading terms of the degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Diego Cifuentes

This paper discusses the enumeration for the total number of all rooted spanning forests of the labeled complete tripartite graph. We enumerate the total number by a combinatorial decomposition.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Sung Sik U

We associate root polytopes to directed graphs and study them by using ribbon structures. Most attention is paid to what we call the semi-balanced case, i.e., when each cycle has the same number of edges pointing in the two directions.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Tamás Kálmán , Lilla Tóthmérész

In 1966, Cummins introduced the "tree graph": the tree graph $\mathbf{T}(G)$ of a graph $G$ (possibly infinite) has all its spanning trees as vertices, and distinct such trees correspond to adjacent vertices if they differ in just one edge,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Suresh Dara , S. M. Hegde , Venkateshwarlu Deva , S. B. Rao , Thomas Zaslavsky

The Ferrers bound conjecture is a natural graph-theoretic extension of the enumeration of spanning trees for Ferrers graphs. We document the current status of the conjecture and provide a further conjecture which implies it.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-07 MLE Slone

We give exact formulas for the transmission (i.e. the sum of all distances between vertices) of perfect trees and rooted powers of (connected finite) graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Nicolás Cianci

We give a short proof of polynomial recurrence with large intersection for additive actions of finite-dimensional vector spaces over countable fields on probability spaces, improving upon the known size and structure of the set of strong…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Vitaly Bergelson , Donald Robertson

The Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$ is $L(G)=D(G)-A(G)$, where $A(G)$ is the adjacency matrix and $D(G)$ is the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees. According to the Matrix-Tree Theorem, the number of spanning trees in $G$ is equal to any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Pavel Chebotarev , Elena Shamis

We study the matrices Q_k of in-forests of a weighted digraph G and their connections with the Laplacian matrix L of G. The (i,j) entry of Q_k is the total weight of spanning converging forests (in-forests) with k arcs such that i belongs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pavel Chebotarev , Rafig Agaev