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We prove that any graph $G$ with $n$ points has a distribution $\mathcal{T}$ over spanning trees such that for any edge $(u,v)$ the expected stretch $E_{T \sim \mathcal{T}}[d_T(u,v)/d_G(u,v)]$ is bounded by $\tilde{O}(\log n)$. Our result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-15 Ittai Abraham , Yair Bartal , Ofer Neiman

This article began as a study of the structure of infinite permutation groups G in which point stabilisers are finite and all infinite normal subgroups are transitive. That led to two variations. One is the generalisation in which point…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Peter M. Neumann , Cheryl E. Praeger , Simon M. Smith

Let $G=$ $\left( V,E\right) $ be a simple graph.\ A non-empty set $S \subseteq V$ is called a global offensive alliance if $S$ is a dominating set and for every vertex $v$ in $V-S$, at least half of the vertices from the closed neighborhood…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Mohamed Bouzefrane , Isma Bouchemakh , Mohamed Zamime , Noureddine Ikhlef-Eschouf

We show that several new classes of groups are measure strongly treeable. In particular, finitely generated groups admitting planar Cayley graphs, elementarily free groups, and the group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane and all its…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Clinton T. Conley , Damien Gaboriau , Andrew S. Marks , Robin D. Tucker-Drob

We study the spectral and diffusive properties of the wired minimal spanning forest (WMSF) on the Poisson-weighted infinite tree (PWIT). Let $M$ be the tree containing the root in the WMSF on the PWIT and $(Y_n)_{n\geq0}$ be a simple random…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Asaf Nachmias , Pengfei Tang

In this paper we show that for every congruent monotileable amenable group $G$ and for every metrizable Choquet simplex $K$, there exists a minimal $G$-subshift, which is free on a full measure set, whose set of invariant probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Paulina Cecchi , María Isabel Cortez

The Arboreal gas model on a finite graph $G$ is the Bernoulli bond percolation on $G$ conditioned on the event that the sampled subgraph is a forest. In this short note we study the arboreal gas on a regular tree wired at the leaves and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Gourab Ray , Ben Xiao

The maximum modularity of a graph is a parameter widely used to describe the level of clustering or community structure in a network. Determining the maximum modularity of a graph is known to be NP-complete in general, and in practice a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

An infinite graph G has the property that a random walk in random environment on G defined by i.i.d. resistances with any common distribution is almost surely transient, if and only if for some p<1, simple random walk is transient on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Pemantle , Yuval Peres

In this article an explicit method (relying on representation theory) to construct packings in Grassmannian space is presented. Infinite families of configurations having only one non-trivial set of principal angles are found using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-08 Jean Creignou

We present a simple yet rigorous approach to the determination of the spectral dimension of random trees, based on the study of the massless limit of the Gaussian model on such trees. As a byproduct, we obtain evidence in favor of a new…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Destri , L. Donetti

Understanding the structure of minor-free metrics, namely shortest path metrics obtained over a weighted graph excluding a fixed minor, has been an important research direction since the fundamental work of Robertson and Seymour. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Arnold Filtser , Philip N. Klein , Hung Le

For a graph G, we construct two algebras, whose dimensions are both equal to the number of spanning trees of G. One of these algebras is the quotient of the polynomial ring modulo certain monomial ideal, while the other is the quotient of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Postnikov , Boris Shapiro

Chip firing provides a way to study the sandpile group (also known as the Jacobian) of a graph. We use a generalized version of chip firing to bound the number of invariant factors of the critical group of an arithmetical structure on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Kassie Archer , Alexander Diaz-Lopez , Darren Glass , Joel Louwsma

Inspired by distributed applications that use consensus or other agreement protocols for global coordination, we define a new computational model for parameterized systems that is based on a general global synchronization primitive and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Nouraldin Jaber , Swen Jacobs , Christopher Wagner , Milind Kulkarni , Roopsha Samanta

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem in a setting where the edge weights are stochastic from unknown distributions, and the only available information is a single sample of each edge's weight distribution. In this setting, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ruben Hoeksma , Gavin Speek , Marc Uetz

A class of causal variational principles on a compact manifold is introduced and analyzed both numerically and analytically. It is proved under general assumptions that the support of a minimizing measure is either completely timelike, or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Felix Finster , Daniela Schiefeneder

A defensive alliance in an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a non-empty set of vertices $S$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $v\in S$ has at least as many neighbours (including itself) in $S$ as it has in $V\setminus S$. We consider…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-05 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

Given a finite planar graph, a grove is a spanning forest in which every component tree contains one or more of a specified set of vertices (called nodes) on the outer face. For the uniform measure on groves, we compute the probabilities of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-06-30 Richard W. Kenyon , David B. Wilson

We show that the geometry of minimum spanning trees (MST) on random graphs is universal. Due to this geometric universality, we are able to characterise the energy of MST using a scaling distribution ($P(\epsilon)$) found using uniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Dobrin , P. M. Duxbury