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By revisiting the Kirchhoff's Matrix-Tree Theorem, we give an exact formula for the number of spanning trees of a graph in terms of the quantum relative entropy between the maximally mixed state and another state specifically obtained from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 Vittorio Giovannetti , Simone Severini

A bi-Cayley graph over the cyclic group $(\mathbb{Z}_n, +)$ is called a bicirculant graph. Let $\Gamma=BC(\mathbb{Z}_n; R,T,S)$ be a bicirculant graph with $R=-R\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_n\setminus \{0\}$ and $T={-}T\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jing Yang , Lihua Feng , Rongrong Lu , Tingzeng Wu

We consider the number of common edges in two independent random spanning trees of a graph $G$. For complete graphs $K_n$, we give a new proof of the fact, originally obtained by Moon, that the distribution converges to a Poisson…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Miklos Bona , Fabian Burghart , Stephan Wagner

Recently, Zheng and Wu defined the concept of odd spanning tree of a graph, meaning a spanning tree in which every vertex has odd degree. Similar to Cayley's formula, Feng, Chen and Wu counted the number of odd spanning trees in complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jun Ge , Yamin Yu

A bi-Cayley graph over a cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_n$ is called a bicirculant graph. Let $\Gamma=BC(\mathbb{Z}_n; R,T,S)$ be a bicirculant graph with $R=R^{-1}\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_n\setminus \{0\}$ and $T=T^{-1}\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jing Yang , Fangming Xian

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

Consider the following process on a simple graph without isolated vertices: Order the edges randomly and keep an edge if and only if it contains a vertex which is not contained in some preceding edge. The resulting set of edges forms a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Zhanar Berikkyzy , Steve Butler , Jay Cummings , Kristin Heysse , Paul Horn , Ruth Luo , Brent Moran

In 1998, Broersma and Tuinstra [J. Graph Theory \textbf{29} (1998), 227-237] proved that if $G$ is a connected graph satisfying $\sigma_2(G) \geq |G|-k+1$ then $G$ has a spanning $k-$ended tree. They also gave an example to show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Pham Hoang Ha

A shelling of a graph, viewed as an abstract simplicial complex that is pure of dimension 1, is an ordering of its edges such that every edge is adjacent to some other edges appeared previously. In this paper, we focus on complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Yibo Gao , Junyao Peng

A spanning tree of a properly edge-colored complete graph, $K_n$, is rainbow provided that each of its edges receives a distinct color. In 1996, Brualdi and Hollingsworth conjectured that if $K_{2m}$ is properly $(2m-1)$-edge-colored, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Hung-Lin Fu , Yuan-Hsun Lo , K. E. Perry , C. A. Rodger

It is well-known that the number of spanning trees, denoted by $\tau(G)$, in a connected multi-graph $G$ can be calculated by the Matrix-Tree theorem and Tutte's deletion-contraction theorem. In this short note, we find an alternate method…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Fengming Dong , Jun Ge , Zhangdong Ouyang

A tree is called k-ended tree if it has at most k leaves, where a leaf is a vertex of degree one. In this paper we prove that every 3-regular connected graph with n vertices such that n is greater than 8 has spanning sub tree with at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Hamed Ghasemian Zoeram , Daniel Yaqubi

The problem of spanning trees is closely related to various interesting problems in the area of statistical physics, but determining the number of spanning trees in general networks is computationally intractable. In this paper, we perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-23 Zhongzhi Zhang , Bin Wu , Yuan Lin

For integer $k\geq2,$ a spanning $k$-ended-tree is a spanning tree with at most $k$ leaves. Motivated by the closure theorem of Broersma and Tuinstra [Independence trees and Hamilton cycles, J. Graph Theory 29 (1998) 227--237], we provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Guoyan Ao , Ruifang Liu , Jinjiang Yuan

When $k|n$, the tree $\mathrm{Comb}_{n,k}$ consists of a path containing $n/k$ vertices, each of whose vertices has a disjoint path length $k-1$ beginning at it. We show that, for any $k=k(n)$ and $\epsilon>0$, the binomial random graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Richard Montgomery

We show that for every graph $G$ that contains two edge-disjoint spanning trees, we can choose two edge-disjoint spanning trees $T_1,T_2$ of $G$ such that $|d_{T_1}(v)-d_{T_2}(v)|\leq 5$ for all $v \in V(G)$. We also prove the more general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Florian Hörsch

For any integer $k\geq 2$, a spanning $k$-ended tree is a spanning tree with at most $k$ leaves. In this paper, we provide a tight spectral radius condition for the existence of a spanning $k$-ended tree in $t$-connected graphs, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Jiaxin Zheng , Xueyi Huang , Junjie Wang

In this paper, we first prove that if the edges of $K_{2m}$ are properly colored by $2m-1$ colors in such a way that any two colors induce a 2-factor of which each component is a 4-cycle, then $K_{2m}$ can be decomposed into $m$ isomorphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Hung-Lin Fu , Yuan-Hsun Lo

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$. A spanning $k$-tree of $G$ is a spanning tree with the maximum degree at most $k$, and a spanning $k$-ended-tree of $G$ is a spanning tree at most $k$ leaves, where $k\geq2$ is an integer. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jifu Lin , Zenan Du , Xinghui Zhao , Lihua You

Let $k\ge 2$ be an integer and $T_1,\ldots, T_k$ be spanning trees of a graph $G$. If for any pair of vertices $(u,v)$ of $V(G)$, the paths from $u$ to $v$ in each $T_i$, $1\le i\le k$, do not contain common edges and common vertices,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Benoit Darties , Nicolas Gastineau , Olivier Togni