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In this work, we study the color discrepancy of spanning trees in random graphs. We show that for the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,p)$ with $p$ above the connectivity threshold, the following holds with high probability: in every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Wenchong Chen , Xiao-Chuan Liu , Xu Yang

The Matrix-Tree Theorem states that the number of spanning trees of a graph is given by the absolute value of any cofactor of the Laplacian matrix of the graph. We propose a very short proof of this result which amounts to comparing Taylor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Amitai Netser Zernik

A spanning tree of a graph is a connected subgraph on all vertices with the minimum number of edges. The number of spanning trees in a graph $G$ is given by Matrix Tree Theorem in terms of principal minors of Laplacian matrix of $G$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Keivan Hassani Monfared , Sudipta Mallik

The critical group of a graph is a finite abelian group whose order is the number of spanning forests of the graph. This paper provides three basic structural results on the critical group of a line graph. The first deals with connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Andrew Berget , Andrew Manion , Molly Maxwell , Aaron Potechin , Victor Reiner

A graph is odd if all of its vertices have odd degrees. In particular, an odd spanning tree in a connected graph is a spanning tree in which all vertices have odd degrees. In this paper we establish a unified technique to enumerate odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shaohan Xu , Kexiang Xu

In this paper we are defining a special class of graphs called multilayered graphs and its subclass, multilayered cycles. For that subclass of graphs we are giving the values of all vertex spans (strong, direct, or Cartesian span).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Aljoša Šubašić , Tanja Vojković

We prove that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree not 2 has a spanning tree with at least ${1\over 4}(s-2)+2$ leaves. Let $G$ be a be a connected graph of girth $g$ with $v>1$ vertices. Let maximal chain of successively…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Anton Bankevich , Dmitri Karpov

The line graph LG of a directed graph G has a vertex for every edge of G and an edge for every path of length 2 in G. In 1967, Knuth used the Matrix-Tree Theorem to prove a formula for the number of spanning trees of LG, and he asked for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-20 Hoda Bidkhori , Shaunak Kishore

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 a graph, a spanning tree is said to be a tree t-spanner of the graph if the distance between any two vertices in is at most times their distance in . The tree t-spanner has many applications in networks and distributed environments. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Sambhu Charan Barman , Sukumar Mondal , Madhumangal Pal

The classical matrix-tree theorem relates the determinant of the combinatorial Laplacian on a graph to the number of spanning trees. We generalize this result to Laplacians on one- and two-dimensional vector bundles, giving a combinatorial…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-09 Richard Kenyon

We prove that for every set $S$ of vertices of a directed graph $D$, the maximum number of vertices in $S$ contained in a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles in $D$ is at least the minimum size of a set of vertices that hits all cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Nathan Bowler , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Florian Gut , Raphael W. Jacobs , Florian Reich

Kirchhoff's Matrix-Tree Theorem asserts that the number of spanning trees in a finite graph can be computed from the determinant of any of its reduced Laplacian matrices. In many cases, even for well-studied families of graphs, this can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Steven Klee , Matthew T. Stamps

The problem of enumerating spanning trees on graphs and lattices is considered. We obtain bounds on the number of spanning trees $N_{ST}$ and establish inequalities relating the numbers of spanning trees of different graphs or lattices. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Shrock , F. Y. Wu

Graph burning is a discrete-time process that models the spread of social contagion. Initially, all vertices are unburned. In each round, one unburned vertex is selected and burned, while any unburned vertex that has a burned neighbour from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jesper Jansson , Shashanka Kulamarva , Yukihiro Murakami , Nikolaas Verhulst

In this paper, we define a class of auxiliary graphs associated with simple undirected graphs. This class of auxiliary graphs is based on the set of spanning trees of the original graph and the edges constituting those spanning trees. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Abhishek Garg , Mahipal Jadeja , Rahul Muthu

Let $L(G)$ denote the maximum number of leaves in any spanning tree of a connected graph $G$. We show the (known) result that for the $n$-cube $Q_n$, $L(Q_n) \sim 2^n = |V(Q_n)|$ as $n\rightarrow \infty$. Examining this more carefully,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Jerrold R. Griggs

In this paper we give a linear time algorithm for computing the number of spanninig trees in double nested graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Fernando Tura

We consider a uniform spanning tree in a $\delta$-square grid approximation of a planar domain $\Omega$. For given integer $n\ge 2$, we condition the tree on the following $n$-arm event: we pick $n$ branches, emanating from $n$ points…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Nathanaël Berestycki , Marcin Lis , Mingchang Liu , Eveliina Peltola

A network-theoretic approach for determining the complexity of a graph is proposed. This approach is based on the relationship between the linear algebra (theory of determinants) and the graph theory. In this paper we contribute a new…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 E. M. Badr , B. Mohamed