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We present a new characterization of $k$-trees based on their reduced clique graphs and $(k+1)$-line graphs, which are block graphs. We explore structural properties of these two classes, showing that the number of clique-trees of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Lilian Markenzon , Allana S. S. Oliveira , Cybele T. M. Vinagre

Let $G$ be a connected graph and $T$ a spanning tree of $G$. Let $\rho(G)$ denote the adjacency spectral radius of $G$. The $k$-excess of a vertex $v$ in $T$ is defined as $\max\{0,d_T(v)-k\}$. The total $k$-excess $\mbox{te}(T,k)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Sizhong Zhou

We discuss a recursive formula for number of spanning trees in a graph. The paper is written primary for school students.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Anton Petrunin

In this article, we extend Moon's classic formula for counting spanning trees in complete graphs containing a fixed spanning forest to complete bipartite graphs. Let $(X,Y)$ be the bipartition of the complete bipartite graph $K_{m,n}$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Fengming Dong , Jun Ge

Using local detailed balance we rewrite the Kirchhoff formula for stationary distribution of Markov jump processes in terms of a physically interpretable tree-ensemble. We use that arborification of path-space integration to derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-17 Faezeh Khodabandehlou , Christian Maes , Karel Netočný

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 number of spanning trees of a graph is an important invariant related to topological and dynamic properties of the graph, such as its reliability, communication aspects, synchronization, and so on. However, the practical enumeration of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shunqi Wu , Mingyun Li , Francesc Comellas

In this paper we give an exact analytical expression for the number of spanning trees of an infinite family of outerplanar, small-world and self-similar graphs. This number is an important graph invariant related to different topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Francesc Comellas , Alicia Miralles , Hongxiao Liu , Zhongzhi Zhang

We prove a lower bound on the number of spanning two-forests in a graph, in terms of the number of vertices, edges, and spanning trees. This implies an upper bound on the average cut size of a random two-forest. The main tool is an identity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Harry Richman , Farbod Shokrieh , Chenxi Wu

The number of rooted spanning forests divided by the number of spanning rooted trees in a graph G with Kirchhoff matrix K is the spectral quantity tau(G)= det(1+K)/det(K) of G by the matrix tree and matrix forest theorems. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Oliver Knill

In this paper, we study some spanning trees with bounded degree and leaf degree from eigenvalues. For any integer $k\geq2$, a $k$-tree is a spanning tree in which every vertex has degree no more than $k$. Let $T$ be a spanning tree of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Chang Liu , Jianping Li

We give new general formulas for the asymptotics of the number of spanning trees of a large graph. A special case answers a question of McKay (1983) for regular graphs. The general answer involves a quantity for infinite graphs that we call…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-27 Russell Lyons

We consider all spanning trees of a complete simple graph $\Gamma$ on $n$ vertices that contain a given $m-$forest $F$. We show that the number of such spanning trees, $\tau(F)$, doesn't depend on the structure of $F$ and is completely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Peter J. Cameron , Michael Kagan

Let $G_n$ be a graph obtained by the strong product of $P_2$ and $C_n$, where $n\geqslant3$. In this paper, explicit expressions for the Kirchhoff index, multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index and number of spanning trees of $G_n$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Yingui Pan , Jianping Li

The classical Matrix-Tree Theorem allows one to list the spanning trees of a graph by monomials in the expansion of the determinant of a certain matrix. We prove that in the case of three-graphs (that is, hypergraphs whose edges have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregor Masbaum , Arkady Vaintrob

We give factorizations for weighted spanning tree enumerators of Cartesian products of complete graphs, keeping track of fine weights related to degree sequences and edge directions. Our methods combine Kirchhoff's Matrix-Tree Theorem with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeremy L. Martin , Victor Reiner

We prove the following sharp estimate for the number of spanning trees of a graph in terms of its vertex-degrees: a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has at most $(1/n^{2}) \prod_{v \in V(G)} (d(v)+1)$ spanning trees. This result is tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Steven Klee , Bhargav Narayanan , Lisa Sauermann

Building on prior work that established Matrix Quasi-tree Theorems for special embedded graphs, in this paper, we develop a comprehensive theory applicable to all embedded graphs. We introduce symbolic skew-adjacency matrices and reduction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qingying Deng , Xian'an Jin , Qi Yan , Yexiang Yan

In this paper, we address the Ehrenborg's conjecture which proposes that for any bipartite graph the number of spanning trees does not exceed the product of the degrees of the vertices divided by the product of the sizes of the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Albina Volkova

We consider the problem of uniformly generating a spanning tree, of a connected undirected graph. This process is useful to compute statistics, namely for phylogenetic trees. We describe a Markov chain for producing these trees. For cycle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Luís M. S. Russo , Andreia Sofia Teixeira , Alexandre P Francisco