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We consider a class of reinforcement processes, called WARMs, on tree graphs. These processes involve a parameter $\alpha$ which governs the strength of the reinforcement, and a collection of Poisson processes indexed by the vertices of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Christian Hirsch , Mark Holmes , Victor Kleptsyn

We study the large-deviation properties of minimum spanning trees for two ensembles of random graphs with $N$ nodes. First, we consider complete graphs. Second, we study Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi (ER) random graphs with edge probability $p=c/N$…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-16 Mahdi Sarikhani , Alexander K. Hartmann

Transport in weighted networks is dominated by the minimum spanning tree (MST), the tree connecting all nodes with the minimum total weight. We find that the MST can be partitioned into two distinct components, having significantly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhenhua Wu , Lidia A. Braunstein , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley

A complete understanding of real networks requires us to understand the consequences of the uneven interaction strengths between a system's components. Here we use the minimum spanning tree (MST) to explore the effect of weight assignment…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Macdonald , E. Almaas , A. -L. Barabasi

In the complete graph on n vertices, when each edge has a weight which is an exponential random variable, Frieze proved that the minimum spanning tree has weight tending to zeta(3)=1/1^3+1/2^3+1/3^3+... as n goes to infinity. We consider…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-08 Omer Angel , Abraham D. Flaxman , David B. Wilson

We prove the existence of an automorphism-invariant coupling for the wired and the free uniform spanning forests on Cayley graphs of finitely generated residually amenable groups.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen

Previous studies has shown that for a weighted undirected graph having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a minimal weight spanning tree can be found with $O^*(\sqrt{mn})$ calls to the weight oracle. The present note shows that a given spanning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-07 Mark Heiligman

We solve a conjecture by Becker et al. (arXiv:2404.05963) on the topic of zero forcing regarding the number of minimal forts of a tree. They conjectured and we prove $\mathcal{F}_{T_n} \le \binom{n}{2} \mathcal{F}_{P_n}$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Nguyen Hoang Dat , Franklin H. J. Kenter

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

We study Erd\"{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs with random weights associated with each link. We generate a new ``Supernode network'' by merging all nodes connected by links having weights below the percolation threshold (percolation clusters)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Tomer Kalisky , Sameet Sreenivasan , Lidia A. Braunstein , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley

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

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices and at most $n(1+\epsilon)$ edges with bounded maximum degree, and $F$ a graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $n-k$, where $\epsilon$ is a constant depending on $k$. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Ting Huang , Yanbo Zhang , Yaojun Chen

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framework called metric forest completion (MFC), where the learned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Grace J. Li , Geoffrey Sanders

The vertices of the Cayley graph of a finitely generated semigroup form a set of sites which can be labeled by elements of a finite alphabet in a manner governed by a nonnegative real interaction matrix, respecting nearest neighbor…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Karl Petersen , Ibrahim Salama

We study shortest paths and spanning trees of complex networks with random edge weights. Edges which do not belong to the spanning tree are inactive in a transport process within the network. The introduction of quenched disorder modifies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

We provide a new approach for proving the indistinguishability of connected components of random one-or-two-ended oriented forests on unimodular random graphs. In particular, this approach leads to a new and simpler proof for the wired…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Francois Baccelli , Ali Khezeli

We study (unrooted) random forests on a graph where the probability of a forest is multiplicatively weighted by a parameter $\beta>0$ per edge. This is called the arboreal gas model, and the special case when $\beta=1$ is the uniform forest…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Roland Bauerschmidt , Nicholas Crawford , Tyler Helmuth , Andrew Swan

Given a subgraph $H$ of a graph $G$, the induced graph of $H$ is the largest subgraph of $G$ whose vertex set is the same as that of $H$. Our paper concerns the induced graphs of the components of $\operatorname{WSF}(G)$, the wired spanning…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Russell Lyons , Yuval Peres , Xin Sun

Consider an infinite, rooted, connected graph where each vertex is labelled with an independent and identically distributed Uniform(0,1) random variable, plus a parameter $\theta$ times its distance from the root $\rho$. That is, we label…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Diana De Armas Bellon , Matthew I. Roberts

We study the distribution of finite clusters in slightly supercritical ($p \downarrow p_c$) Bernoulli bond percolation on transitive nonamenable graphs, proving in particular that if $G$ is a transitive nonamenable graph satisfying the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Tom Hutchcroft