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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 study subgraphs that appear in large Ramsey graphs for a given graph $F$. The recent girth Ramsey theorem of the first two authors asserts that there are Ramsey graphs such that all small subgraphs are `forests of copies of $F$'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices and an assignment of colours to its edges, a set of edges $S \subseteq E$ is said to be rainbow if edges from $S$ have pairwise different colours assigned to them. In this paper, we investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Deepak Bal , Alan Frieze , Pawel Pralat

We prove that for any positive integer $k$, the edges of any graph whose fractional arboricity is at most $k + 1/(3k+2)$ can be decomposed into $k$ forests and a matching.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-16 Tomas Kaiser , Mickael Montassier , Andre Raspaud

The rainbow arborescence conjecture posits that if the arcs of a directed graph with $n$ vertices are colored by $n-1$ colors such that each color class forms a spanning arborescence, then there is a spanning arborescence that contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

In this note, we give short inductive proofs of two known results on $k$-extendible graphs based on a property proved in [Qinglin Yu, A note on $n$-extendable graphs. Journal of Graph Theory, 16:349-353, 1992].

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Shenwei Huang , Yongtang Shi

We prove Ehrenborg's conjecture that every connected bipartite graph $G$ with parts of size $m$ and $n$ has at most $\frac{1}{mn}\prod_{v\in V(G)} \operatorname{deg}(v)$ spanning trees, and that equality holds if and only if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Boon Suan Ho

The Jones polynomial can be expressed in terms of spanning trees of the graph obtained by checkerboard coloring a knot diagram. We show there exists a complex generated by these spanning trees whose homology is the reduced Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Abhijit Champanerkar , Ilya Kofman

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

An algorithm is proposed for constructing directed spanning forests of the minimum weight, in which the maximum possible degree of affinity between the minimum forests is preserved when the number of trees changes. The correctness of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Vasily Buslov

We prove a refinement of the tree packing theorem by Tutte/Nash-Williams for finite graphs. This result is used to obtain a similar result for end faithful spanning tree packings in certain infinite graphs and consequently to establish a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Florian Lehner

We consider the space of embeddings of finitely many circles that bound disks in non-positively curved surfaces. We index the connected components of this space with finite rooted trees and show that the connected components are classifying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ryan C. Gelnett

The Gallai graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a graph $G$ has the edges of $G$ as its vertices and two distinct vertices $e$ and $f$ of $\Gamma(G)$ are adjacent in $\Gamma(G)$ if the edges $e$ and $f$ of $G$ are adjacent in $G$ but do not span a triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Felix Joos , Van Bang Le , Dieter Rautenbach

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

This is a new and short proof of the main theorem of classical structure tree theory. Namely, we show the existence of certain automorphism-invariant tree-decompositions of graphs based on the principle of removing finitely many edges. This…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-05 Bernhard Krön

We give exact formulas for the transmission (i.e. the sum of all distances between vertices) of perfect trees and rooted powers of (connected finite) graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Nicolás Cianci

Traditional clustering identifies groups of objects that share certain qualities. Tangles do the converse: they identify groups of qualities that often occur together. They can thereby identify and discover 'types': of behaviour, views,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Reinhard Diestel

Biregular bipartite graphs have been proven to have similar edge distributions to random bipartite graphs and thus have nice pseudorandomness and expansion properties. Thus it is quite desirable to find a biregular bipartite spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Dandan Fan , Xiaofeng Gu , Huiqiu Lin

We conjecture that every $n$-vertex graph of minimum degree at least $\frac k2$ and maximum degree at least $2k$ contains all trees with $k$ edges as subgraphs. We prove an approximate version of this conjecture for trees of bounded degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Guido Besomi , Matías Pavez-Signé , Maya Stein

This paper contains results relating currents and voltages in resistive networks to appropriate random trees or forests in those networks.

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Hariharan Narayanan