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We introduce $\mathsf{WST}^{\beta_n}(K_n)$ as the weighted spanning tree of the complete graph $K_n$ w.r.t. the random electric network of conductances $\{\exp(-\beta_nU_{e})\}_{e\in E(K_n)}$ with $\mathrm{Unif}[0,1]$ i.i.d. $U_e$'s. Moving…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Ágnes Kúsz

We determine, asymptotically in $n$, the distribution and mean of the weight of a minimum-weight $k$-clique (or any strictly balanced graph $H$) in a complete graph $K_n$ whose edge weights are independent random values drawn from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden , Gregory Sorkin

In 1985, Frieze showed that the expected sum of the edge weights of the minimum spanning tree (MST) in the uniformly weighted graph converges to $\zeta(3)$. Recently, Hino and Kanazawa extended this result to a uniformly weighted simplicial…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Nicolas Fraiman , Sayan Mukherjee , Gugan Thoppe

We give a lower bound on the expected degree of the free minimal spanning forest of a vertex transitive graph in terms of its spectral radius. This result answers a question of Lyons-Peres-Schramm and simplifies the Gaboriau-Lyons proof of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Andreas Thom

In this paper, we study two examples of minimum weight random graphs with edge constraints. First we consider the complete graph on ${n}$ vertices equipped with uniformly heavy edge weights and use iteration methods to obtain deviation…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

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

Let $N=\binom{n}{2}$ and $s\geq 2$. Let $e_{i,j},\,i=1,2,\ldots,N,\,j=1,2,\ldots,s$ be $s$ independent permutations of the edges $E(K_n)$ of the complete graph $K_n$. A {\em MultiTree} is a set $I\subseteq [N]$ such that the edge sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

We study the edge overlap and local limit of the random spanning tree in random environment (RSTRE) on the complete graph with $n$ vertices and weights given by $\exp(-\beta \omega_e)$ for $\omega_e$ uniformly distributed on $[0,1]$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Luca Makowiec

The mean weight of a cycle in an edge-weighted graph is the sum of the cycle's edge weights divided by the cycle's length. We study the minimum mean-weight cycle on the complete graph on n vertices, with random i.i.d. edge weights drawn…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Claire Mathieu , David B. Wilson

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

Let $c$ be the constant such that the expected length of the Euclidean minimum spanning tree of $n$ random points in the unit square is $c \sqrt{n}$ in the limit, when $n$ goes to infinity. We improve the prior best lower bound of $0.6008…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Ondřej Draganov , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Sophie Rosenmeier , Morteza Saghafian

The \emph{spanning tree packing number} of a graph $G$ is the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees contained in $G$. Let $k\geq 1$ be a fixed integer. Palmer and Spencer proved that in almost every random graph process, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Xiaolin Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

In 1995, Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi showed that every large $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2 + \gamma)n$ contains all spanning trees of bounded degree. We consider a generalization of this result to loose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Yanitsa Pehova , Kalina Petrova

We investigate a process of joining $k$ random spanning trees on a fixed clique $K_n$. The joined trees may not be disjoint and multiple edges are replaced by one simple edge. This process produces a simple graph $G$ on $n$~vertices with an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Blazej Wrobel , Dominik Bojko

We prove that, for an undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, each labeled with a linear function of a parameter $\lambda$, the number of different minimum spanning trees obtained as the parameter varies can be $\Omega(m\log n)$.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-13 David Eppstein

We study the noise sensitivity of the minimum spanning tree (MST) of the $n$-vertex complete graph when edges are assigned independent random weights. It is known that when the graph distance is rescaled by $n^{1/3}$ and vertices are given…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Omer Israeli , Yuval Peled

We study the problem of low-stretch spanning trees in graphs of bounded width: bandwidth, cutwidth, and treewidth. We show that any simple connected graph $G$ with a linear arrangement of bandwidth $b$ can be embedded into a distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Glencora Borradaile , Erin Wolf Chambers , David Eppstein , William Maxwell , Amir Nayyeri

In 1986, Janson showed that the number of edges in the union of $k$ random spanning trees in the complete graph $K_n$ is a shifted Poisson distribution. Using results from the theory of electrical networks, we provide a new proof of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Austen James , Matthew Larson , Daniel Montealegre , Andrew Salmon

In these expository notes, we describe some features of the multiplicative coalescent and its connection with random graphs and minimum spanning trees. We use Pitman's proof of Cayley's formula, which proceeds via a calculation of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Louigi Addario-Berry

In this paper, we set forth a new algorithm for generating approximately uniformly random spanning trees in undirected graphs. We show how to sample from a distribution that is within a multiplicative $(1+\delta)$ of uniform in expected…

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