Formulas counting spanning trees in line graphs and their extensions
Abstract
For any connected multigraph and any , if induces an acyclic subgraph of and removing all edges in yields a subgraph of whose components are complete graphs, a formula for is obtained, where is the number of spanning trees in which contain all edges in . Applying this result, we can easily obtain a formula for the number of spanning trees in the line graph or the middle graph of an arbitrary graph. Applying this result, we also show that for any connected graph with a clique which is a cut-set of , the number of spanning trees in has a factorization which is analogous to a property of the chromatic polynomial of .
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@article{arxiv.1907.07376,
title = {Formulas counting spanning trees in line graphs and their extensions},
author = {Fengming Dong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07376},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
26 pages, 9 figures and 18 references. Main results have been presented in Fuzhou University, Minan Normal University and Northwestern Polytechnical University