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Minimum spanning trees are important tools in the analysis and design of networks. Many practical applications require their computation, ranging from biology and linguistics to economy and telecommunications. The set of cycles of a network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Manuel Dubinsky , Kun-Mao Chao , César Massri , Gabriel Taubin

Spanning trees are an important quantity characterizing the reliability of a network, however, explicitly determining the number of spanning trees in networks is a theoretical challenge. In this paper, we study the number of spanning trees…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-03 Zhongzhi Zhang , Hongxiao Liu , Bin Wu , Shuigeng Zhou

The Arboreal gas model on a finite graph $G$ is the Bernoulli bond percolation on $G$ conditioned on the event that the sampled subgraph is a forest. In this short note we study the arboreal gas on a regular tree wired at the leaves and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Gourab Ray , Ben Xiao

Alon and Wormald showed that any graph with minimum degree d contains a spanning star forest in which every connected component is of size at least \Omega((d/\log d)^{1/3}). They asked if any connected graph with minimum degree at least d…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Codrut Grosu

We give a new simple construction of the sandpile measure on an infinite graph G, under the sole assumption that each tree in the Wired Uniform Spanning Forest on G has one end almost surely. For, the so called, generalized minimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-13 Antal A. Jarai , Nicolas Werning

In this lecture we will consider the minimum weight spanning tree (MST) problem, i.e., one of the simplest and most vital combinatorial optimization problems. We will discuss a particular greedy algorithm that allows to compute a MST for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-21 O. Melchert

On a locally finite, infinite tree $T$, let $p_c(T)$ denote the critical probability for Bernoulli percolation. We prove that every positively associated, finite-range dependent percolation model on $T$ with marginals $p > p_c(T)$ must…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Laurin Köhler-Schindler , Aurelio L. Sulser

A graph is chordal if it contains no induced cycle of length four or more. While finite chordal graphs are precisely those admitting tree-decompositions into cliques, this fails for infinite graphs. We establish two results extending the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Max Pitz , Lucas Real , Roman Schaut

Based on a recently proposed $q$-dependent detrended cross-correlation coefficient $\rho_q$, we generalize the concept of minimum spanning tree (MST) by introducing a family of $q$-dependent minimum spanning trees ($q$MST) that are…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-05-19 Jaroslaw Kwapien , Pawel Oswiecimka , Marcin Forczek , Stanislaw Drozdz

We prove the rather counterintuitive result that there exist finite transitive graphs H and integers k such that the Free Uniform Spanning Forest in the direct product of the k-regular tree and H has infinitely many trees almost surely.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Gábor Pete , Ádám Timár

In 2018, the concept of a fort in graph theory was introduced as a non-empty subset of vertices satisfying the condition that no vertex outside the set has exactly one neighbor in the set. Since then, forts have played a significant role in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Thomas R. Cameron , Kelvin Li

We review results on the scaling of the optimal path length in random networks with weighted links or nodes. In strong disorder we find that the length of the optimal path increases dramatically compared to the known small world result for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 L. A. Braunstein , Z. Wu , Y. Chen , S. V. Buldyrev , S. Sreenivasan , T. Kalisky , R. Cohen , E. Lopez , S. Havlin , H. E. Stanley

We study the noise sensitivity of the minimum spanning tree (MST) of the $n$-vertex complete graph when edges are assigned independent random weights. It is known that when the graph distance is rescaled by $n^{1/3}$ and vertices are given…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Omer Israeli , Yuval Peled

Diestel and Leader have characterised connected graphs that admit a normal spanning tree via two classes of forbidden minors. One class are Halin's $(\aleph_0,\aleph_1)$-graphs: bipartite graphs with bipartition $(\mathbb{N},B)$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Nathan Bowler , Stefan Geschke , Max Pitz

In the context of algorithm theory, various studies have been conducted on spanning trees with desirable properties. In this paper, we consider the \textsc{Minimum Cover Spanning Tree} problem (MCST for short). Given a graph $G$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Toranosuke Kokai , Akira Suzuki , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Xiao Zhou

We show that every connected graph can be approximated by a normal tree, up to some arbitrarily small error phrased in terms of neighbourhoods around its ends. The existence of such approximate normal trees has consequences of both…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Jan Kurkofka , Ruben Melcher , Max Pitz

In 1966, Cummins introduced the "tree graph": the tree graph $\mathbf{T}(G)$ of a graph $G$ (possibly infinite) has all its spanning trees as vertices, and distinct such trees correspond to adjacent vertices if they differ in just one edge,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Suresh Dara , S. M. Hegde , Venkateshwarlu Deva , S. B. Rao , Thomas Zaslavsky

The uniform spanning forest measure ($\mathsf{USF}$) on a locally finite, infinite connected graph $G$ with conductance $c$ is defined as a weak limit of uniform spanning tree measure on finite subgraphs. Depending on the underlying graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Zhan Shi , Vladas Sidoravicius , He Song , Longmin Wang , Kainan Xiang

We prove that, for an undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, each labeled with a linear function of a parameter $\lambda$, the number of different minimum spanning trees obtained as the parameter varies can be $\Omega(m\log n)$.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-13 David Eppstein

We generalize the uniform spanning tree to construct a family of determinantal measures on essential spanning forests on periodic planar graphs in which every component tree is bi-infinite. Like the uniform spanning tree, these measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Richard Kenyon