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By means of analytic techniques we show that the expected number of spanning trees in a connected labelled series-parallel graph on $n$ vertices chosen uniformly at random satisfies an estimate of the form $s \varrho^{-n} (1+o(1))$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Julia Ehrenmüller , Juanjo Rué

We study the minimum spanning tree distribution on the space of spanning trees of the $n$-by-$n$ grid for large $n$. We establish bounds on the decay rates of the probability of the most and the least probable spanning trees as…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Kristopher Tapp

In this work, we study methodical decomposition of an undirected, unweighted complete graph ($K_n$ of order $n$, size $m$) into minimum number of edge-disjoint trees. We find that $x$, a positive integer, is minimum and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Antika Sinha , Sanjoy Kumar Saha , Partha Basuchowdhuri

A classical result by Otter shows that the complete graph has an exponential number of non-isomorphic spanning trees. This was recently extended by Lee to every almost regular graph of sufficiently large degree. In this paper, we consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Veronica Bitonti , Lukas Michel , Alex Scott

In Bhatt and Roy's minimal directed spanning tree (MDST) construction for a random partially ordered set of points in the unit square,all edges must respect the ``coordinatewise'' partial order and there must be a directed path from each…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-30 Mathew D. Penrose , Andrew R. Wade

We introduce a new spanning tree model called the random spanning tree in random environment (RSTRE), which interpolates between the uniform spanning tree and the minimum spanning tree as the inverse temperature (disorder strength) $\beta$…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Luca Makowiec , Michele Salvi , Rongfeng Sun

We prove that the local limit of the weighted spanning trees on any simple connected high degree almost regular sequence of electric networks is the Poisson(1) branching process conditioned to survive forever, by generalizing [NP22] and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Ágnes Kúsz

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Yaobin Chen , Allan Lo

Consider~\(n\) nodes distributed independently across~\(N\) cities contained with the unit square~\(S\) according to a distribution~\(f.\) Each city is modelled as an~\(r_n \times r_n\) square contained within~\(S\) and~\(MSTC_n\) denotes…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

We show that in any graph, the average length of a flow path in an electrical flow between the endpoints of a random edge is $O(\log^2 n)$. This is a consequence of a more general result which shows that the spectral norm of the entrywise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Aaron Schild , Satish Rao , Nikhil Srivastava

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. Motivated by several recent studies of local graph algorithms, we consider the following variant of this problem. Let G be a connected bounded-degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Reut Levi , Guy Moshkovitz , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Asaf Shapira

Given an edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $E_0\subset E$, the incremental network design problem with minimum spanning trees asks for a sequence of edges $e'_1,\ldots,e'_T\in E\setminus E_0$ minimizing $\sum_{t=1}^Tw(X_t)$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Konrad Engel , Thomas Kalinowski , Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

We consider the following question. We have a dense regular graph $G$ with degree $\alpha n$, where $\alpha>0$ is a constant. We add $m=o(n^2)$ random edges. The edges of the augmented graph $G(m)$ are given independent edge weights $X(e)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Alan Frieze

We consider the following random graph process: starting with n isolated vertices, add edges uniformly at random provided no such edge creates a copy of C_4. We show that, with probability tending to 1 as $n \to \infty$, the final graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Michael E. Picollelli

We present an algorithm that, with high probability, generates a random spanning tree from an edge-weighted undirected graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{4/3}m^{1/2}+n^{2})$ time (The $\tilde{O}(\cdot)$ notation hides $\operatorname{polylog}(n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-22 David Durfee , Rasmus Kyng , John Peebles , Anup B. Rao , Sushant Sachdeva

We obtain an exact formula for the probability that a uniformly random spanning tree of the $2$-by-$n$ square grid is ``balanced'' in the sense that it has an edge whose removal partitions its vertices into two sets of equal size. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Makenzie Gallagher , Kristopher Tapp

In this paper we describe a randomized algorithm which returns a maximal spanning forest of an unknown {\em weighted} undirected graph making $O(n)$ $\mathsf{CUT}$ queries in expectation. For weighted graphs, this is optimal due to a result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hang Liao , Deeparnab Chakrabarty

Random spanning trees of a graph $G$ are governed by a corresponding probability mass distribution (or "law"), $\mu$, defined on the set of all spanning trees of $G$. This paper addresses the problem of choosing $\mu$ in order to utilize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Nathan Albin , Jason Clemens , Derek Hoare , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Brandon Sit , Sarah Tymochko

With applications in distribution systems and communication networks, the minimum stretch spanning tree problem is to find a spanning tree T of a graph G such that the maximum distance in T between two adjacent vertices is minimized. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Lan Lin , Yixun Lin

The expected value for the weighted crossing number of a randomly weighted graph is studied. A variation of the Crossing Lemma for expectations is proved. We focus on the case where the edge-weights are independent random variables that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Bojan Mohar , Tamon Stephen