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We give a short proof of Cayley's tree formula for counting the number of different labeled trees on $n$ vertices. The following nonlinear recursive relation for the number of labeled trees on $n$ vertices is deduced from a combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Alok Bhushan Shukla

Cayley's formula states that the number of labelled trees on $n$ vertices is $n^{n-2}$, and many of the current proofs involve complex structures or rigorous computation. We present a bijective proof of the formula by providing an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Steven Hao , Andrew He , Ray Li , Scott Wu

We provide a short combinatorial proof of Cayley's formula by means of a bijective map to an outcome space of an urn-drawing problem. Furthermore we introduce an algebraic structure on the set of labeled trees, which provides a more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Victor N. Ermolaev , Giulio Iacobelli

We give a short proof of the fact that the number of labelled trees on $n$ vertices is $n^{n-2}$. Although many short proofs are known, we have not seen this one before.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Guillaume Chapuy , Guillem Perarnau

Cayley's formula states that there are $n^{n-2}$ spanning trees in the complete graph on $n$ vertices; it has been proved in more than a dozen different ways over its 150 year history. The complete graphs are a special case of threshold…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Stephen R. Chestnut , Donniell E. Fishkind

The note contains a short elementary proof of Cayley's formula for labeled trees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Victoria Feldman

We present a nice result on the probability of a cycle occurring in a randomly generated graph. We then provide some extensions and applications, including the proof of the famous Cayley formula, which states that the number of labeled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Scott Wu , Ray Li , Andrew He , Steven Hao

We prove a weighted generalization of the formula for the number of plane vertex-labeled trees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ran J. Tessler

We prove a new formula for the generating function of multitype Cayley trees counted according to their degree distribution. Using this formula we recover and extend several enumerative results about trees. In particular, we extend some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Olivier Bernardi , Alejandro H. Morales

We construct a bijection between certain Deodhar components of a braid variety constructed from an affine Kac-Moody group of type $A_{n-1}$ and vertex-labeled trees on $n$ vertices. By an argument of Galashin, Lam, and Williams using…

A new very simple proof of the number of labeled rooted forest-graphs with a given number of vertices is given. As a partial case of this formula we have Cayley's formula.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Alexei L. Rebenko

For a labelled tree on the vertex set $[n]:=\{1,2,..., n\}$, define the direction of each edge $ij$ to be $i\to j$ if $i<j$. The indegree sequence of $T$ can be considered as a partition $\lambda \vdash n-1$. The enumeration of trees with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Rosena R. X. Du , Jingbin Yin

Mayer's theory of cluster integrals allows one to write the partition function of a gas model as a generating function of weighted graphs. Recently, Labelle, Leroux and Ducharme have studied the graph weights arising from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Olivier Bernardi

By using combinatorics, we give a new proof for the recurrence relations of the characteristic polynomial coefficients, and then we obtain an explicit expression for the generic term of the coefficient sequence, which yields the trace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hong-Hao Zhang , Wen-Bin Yan , Xue-Song Li

We present a very simple bijective proof of Cayley's formula due to Foata and Fuchs (1970). This bijection turns out to be very useful when seen through a probabilistic lens; we explain some of the ways in which it can be used to derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Louigi Addario-Berry , Serte Donderwinkel , Mickaël Maazoun , James Martin

We define and prove isomorphisms between three combinatorial classes involving labeled trees. We also give an alternative proof by means of generating functions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Ali Chouria , Vlad-Florin Drǎgoi , Jean-Gabriel Luque

Arthur Cayley famously proved that there are n to the power n-2 labeled trees on n vertices. Here we go much further and show how to enumerate, fully automatically, labeled trees such that every vertex has a number of neighbors that belongs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Shalosh B. Ekhad , Doron Zeilberger

Several hook summation formulae for binary trees have appeared recently in the literature. In this paper we present an analogous formula for unordered increasing trees of size r, which involves r parameters. The right-hand side can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Valentin Féray , I. P. Goulden

In this paper, we give a simple combinatorial explanation of a formula of A. Postnikov relating bicolored rooted trees to bicolored binary trees. We also present generalized formulas for the number of labeled k-ary trees, rooted labeled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Seunghyun Seo

A record of a rooted Cayley tree is a node whose label is the largest along the unique path to the root. In this work, we find elegant functional equations relating the generating functions for records of rooted Cayley trees and for records…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Adrián Lillo , Mercedes Rosas , Stefan Trandafir
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