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Listing spanning trees of outerplanar graphs by pivot-exchanges

Discrete Mathematics 2024-12-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that the spanning trees of any outerplanar triangulation GG can be listed so that any two consecutive spanning trees differ in an exchange of two edges that share an end vertex. For outerplanar graphs GG with faces of arbitrary lengths (not necessarily 3) we establish a similar result, with the condition that the two exchanged edges share an end vertex or lie on a common face. These listings of spanning trees are obtained from a simple greedy algorithm that can be implemented efficiently, i.e., in time O(nlogn)\mathcal{O}(n \log n) per generated spanning tree, where nn is the number of vertices of GG. Furthermore, the listings correspond to Hamilton paths on the 0/1-polytope that is obtained as the convex hull of the characteristic vectors of all spanning trees of GG.

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@article{arxiv.2409.15793,
  title  = {Listing spanning trees of outerplanar graphs by pivot-exchanges},
  author = {Nastaran Behrooznia and Torsten Mütze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15793},
  year   = {2024}
}
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