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On some special spanning trees of grid graphs

I would like to know if there are existing results on the following objects: spanning trees of a grid graph, with no corridor where a corridor is a vertex having exactly two neighbors, on opposite ...
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Minimum spanning tree of a random graph

Consider $n$ points arbitrarily located on the plane. Consider a random graph $G$ drawn from $G(n, \frac12)$ on these points (i.e. the Erdos-Renyi random graph where every edge is selected with ...
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What is known about the distribution of lengths of the cycle you get by adding an edge to a uniform spanning tree?

Let $G$ be a finite, connected graph. Let $T$ be a uniform spanning tree, and let $e$ be a uniformly random edge not in $T$. When we add $e$ to $T$, we get a subgraph with a unique cycle, $C$. I am ...
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Euclidean Minimum Spanning Trees Restricted to One Vertex Per Grid Cell

Given an $n \times n$ grid with unit grid cells, and one point from the interior of each cell, what is are best possible lower and upper bounds for lengths of minimum spanning trees? The lower bound ...
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Does the zeta regularized Laplacian determinant measure the volume of some parameter space? How many "spanning trees" on a manifold?

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, with Laplacian $\Delta$. If $\lambda_i$ are the nonzero eigenvalues of $\Delta$, we can define the zeta function $\zeta(s) = \Sigma \lambda_i^{-s}$. By analytic ...
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average probability for an edge be a in random spanning tree of a weighted graph

any cofactor of a Laplacian of a weighted graph will give the sum of all weighted spanning trees, lets denote it by $A$. The same can be calculated for spanning trees which avoid certain edge $e$, ...
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Characterizing graphs with $k$ edge-disjoint minimum diameter spanning trees

Henneberg [1] and Laman [2] characterized graphs which have, after adding any edge, 2 edge-disjoint spanning trees. This was generalized to $k$ edge-disjoint spanning trees by Frank and Szegõ [3]. ...
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Matrix-tree for matrices with constant diagonal

I've got a symmetric matrix $A$ whose entries are in $\{0,-1,1\}$, with the diagonal entries all equal to $1$. I'm interested in finding a combinatorial description of the entries of the inverse of $A$...
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Bound on the magnitude of the entries of the Laplacian pseudo-inverse

Let $L$ be the laplacian matrix of a connected graph $G$ with real positive weights and $N$ vertices, or that can be assumed to have binary weights for simplicity.My goal is to bound $\Vert L^+\Vert_{\...
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Blind construction of planar graph with additive spanning tree count

Suppose we have two planar graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$ with number of spanning tree count $P_1$ and $P_2$ respectively then there is an easy construction which gives a planar graph with spanning tree count ...
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Calculating Minimum Spanning Trees in Very Big Graphs

I need to determine Minimum Spanning Trees (MST) of very big complete graphs, whose edgeweights can be calculated from data that is associated with the vertices. In the planar euclidean case, for ...
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Is there a name for this variant of the MST and the TSP?

Suppose I am given a weighted graph $G$ that contains a "start vertex" $v_0$, and my goal is to construct a set of paths that all originate at $v_0$ and touch all of the vertices of $G$, with as ...
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Incremental minimum spanning tree

Given a connected graph $G=(V,E)$ with a weight function $w:E\to\mathbb{R}$ and a subset $E_0\subseteq E$ such that the subgraph $(V,E_0)$ is connected, I am looking for a sequence $E_0\subseteq E_1\...
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How can we hang the weighted trees so that vertices nearer to root (based on distances, not hop count) lie in upper levels?

I have a set of edge weighted trees, each tree rooted at some vertex. Consider these trees are hung from the roots and vertices are arranged in some levels. I wish to design an algorithm (...
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Counting number of spanning trees of the complete bipartite with given vertex-degrees

For given $n_1,n_2 \in \mathbb{N}$ let $K_{n_1,n_2}$ be the complete bipartite graph. I have seen a few sources proving that the number of spanning trees $t(K_{n_1,n_2})$ is given by $n_1^{n_2-1} n_2^{...
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Optimality of trees generated via edge exchanges

let MST be the minimum spanning tree of a weighted finite graph; what can be said about the weight-optimality of the trees generated from the MST by sequentially exchanging a tree edge with a non-tree ...
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How to estimate the probability of an edge appearing in the minimum spanning tree of a graph?

I've been running into this problem recently and I've been stuck on it for a while. I have a set of vertices $G$ that form a complete graph. From this I need to sample $k$ vertices (which would also ...
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Relation between the number of spanning trees and the chromatic number of a graph

The number of spanning trees $\tau(G)$ of a simple graph $G$ is seen to satisfy the deletion-contraction recurrence: $$\tau(G)=\tau(G-e)+\tau(G.e),$$ where $e$ is an edge of the graph $G$ and $G-e$ ...
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Online algorithms for MSTs from time series

Is it possible to construct the MST (minimum-weight spanning tree) for an potentially infinite sequence of points $\lbrace (i,Y[i]): i\in\mathbb{N}_0,\,c_{\text{min}} \le Y[i]\le c_{\text{max}}\rbrace$...
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Approximating all spanning trees with their sample

In a complete graph with $n$ vertices there are $n^{n-2}$ trees. In my research I'm analyzing trees in the following way (each edge has a weight): Get a tree. Build a complete graph, by the following ...
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What is the exact asymptotic bound on the following sum of polynomials?

I am trying to describe the asymptotic growth of the function $$f(n) = \sum_{k = 1}^{n-1} \frac{k^{2n - 4k - 3}(n^2 -2nk + 2k^2)}{(n-k)^{2n-4k-1}}$$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$. Plotting $f(n)$ for the ...
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Relation of minimum spanning trees to the shortest Hamiltonian path problem

Spanning trees can be decomposed into a minimal set of maximal path graphs, whose vertices have degree two exactly if they also have degree two in the spanning tree; lets call these paths tree paths. ...
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Formula for current through an edge in terms of sums over spanning trees

Please help me find a link to the proof of the following theorem (w(T) denotes the weight of the tree T): Consider an electric circuit with two boundary vertices $a$ and $b$. Current through the edge $...
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Heuristics for lightweighted "cubic" spanning trees

I have the problem of calculating a good approximation of the minimimum-weight spanning tree with vertex-degrees in $\lbrace 1,3\rbrace$ of a complete symmetric graph, without parallel edges or self-...
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(Weakly) connected sets with large (out-)boundary

Let $\Gamma=(V,E)$ be a connected undirected graph with n vertices such that every vertex has degree at least $4$. Now draw arrows on some of the edges, in such a way that the in-degree of every ...
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Expected length of minimum spanning trees

For a simple, finite, connected and complete graph $K_n = (V(K_n), E(K_n))$ with vertex set $V(K_n)$ and edge set $E(K_n)$, we assign a non-negative independent and identical distributed random weight ...
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Gromov-Hausdorff distance measure between minimum spanning trees

I am trying to compare minimum spanning trees through time. I have two questions: 1-Is it possible to measure the similarity between two minimum spanning trees with Gromov-Hausdorff distance measure ...
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