14 research outputs found
Factorizations of some weighted spanning tree enumerators
We give factorizations for weighted spanning tree enumerators of Cartesian
products of complete graphs, keeping track of fine weights related to degree
sequences and edge directions. Our methods combine Kirchhoff's Matrix-Tree
Theorem with the technique of identification of factors.Comment: Final version, 12 pages. To appear in the Journal of Combinatorial
Theory, Series A. The paper has been reorganized, and the proof of Theorem 4
shortened, in light of a more general result appearing in reference [6
Factorizations of some weighted spanning tree enumerators
This is the author's accepted manuscript.We give factorizations for weighted spanning tree enumerators of Cartesian products of complete graphs, keeping track of fine weights related
to degree sequences and edge directions. Our methods combine Kirchhoff's Matrix-Tree Theorem with the technique of identification of factors
Simplicial matrix-tree theorems
We generalize the definition and enumeration of spanning trees from the
setting of graphs to that of arbitrary-dimensional simplicial complexes
, extending an idea due to G. Kalai. We prove a simplicial version of
the Matrix-Tree Theorem that counts simplicial spanning trees, weighted by the
squares of the orders of their top-dimensional integral homology groups, in
terms of the Laplacian matrix of . As in the graphic case, one can
obtain a more finely weighted generating function for simplicial spanning trees
by assigning an indeterminate to each vertex of and replacing the
entries of the Laplacian with Laurent monomials. When is a shifted
complex, we give a combinatorial interpretation of the eigenvalues of its
weighted Laplacian and prove that they determine its set of faces uniquely,
generalizing known results about threshold graphs and unweighted Laplacian
eigenvalues of shifted complexes.Comment: 36 pages, 2 figures. Final version, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math.
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A weighted cellular matrix-tree theorem, with applications to complete colorful and cubical complexes
We present a version of the weighted cellular matrix-tree theorem that is
suitable for calculating explicit generating functions for spanning trees of
highly structured families of simplicial and cell complexes. We apply the
result to give weighted generalizations of the tree enumeration formulas of
Adin for complete colorful complexes, and of Duval, Klivans and Martin for
skeleta of hypercubes. We investigate the latter further via a logarithmic
generating function for weighted tree enumeration, and derive another
tree-counting formula using the unsigned Euler characteristics of skeleta of a
hypercube and the Crapo -invariant of uniform matroids.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures. Sections 6 and 7 of previous version simplified
and condensed. Final version to appear in J. Combin. Theory Ser.
Counting the spanning trees of the 3-cube using edge slides
We give a direct combinatorial proof of the known fact that the 3-cube has
384 spanning trees, using an "edge slide" operation on spanning trees. This
gives an answer in the case n=3 to a question implicitly raised by Stanley. Our
argument also gives a bijective proof of the n=3 case of a weighted count of
the spanning trees of the n-cube due to Martin and Reiner.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures. v2: Final version as published in the
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. Section 5 shortened and restructured;
references added; one figure added; some typos corrected; additional minor
changes in response to the referees' comment