Enumeration of forests in a graph
Authors:
C. J. Liu and Yutze Chow
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1981), 659-662
MSC:
Primary 05C30; Secondary 05C05
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0627715-2
MathSciNet review:
627715
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Abstract: The enumeration of forests of different orders in a graph is carried out by a procedure that involves formal sums and certain annihilation operators on the space of such sums. The results here extend the well-known matrix-tree theorem to the general case of forests.
- [1] C. J. Liu and Yutze Chow, Enumeration of connected spanning subgraphs of a planar theory, Acta Math. (to appear).
- [2] F. Harary, Graph theory, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1969. MR 0256911 (41:1566)
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0627715-2
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© Copyright 1981
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