The Number of Spanning Trees in P4-Reducible Graphs [chapter]

Stavros D. Nikolopoulos, Charis Papadopoulos
2004 Mathematics and Computer Science III  
The Kn-complement of a graph G, denoted by Kn − G, is defined as the graph obtained from the complete graph Kn by removing a set of edges that span G; if G has n vertices, then Kn − G coincides with the complement G of the graph G. In this paper we extend the previous notion and derive determinant based formulas for the number of spanning trees of graphs of the form K m n ± G, where K m n is the complete multigraph on n vertices with exactly m edges joining every pair of vertices and G is a
more » ... igraph spanned by a set of edges of K m n ; the graph K m n + G (resp. K m n − G) is obtained from K m n by adding (resp. removing) the edges of G. Moreover, we derive determinant based formulas for graphs that result from K m n by adding and removing edges of multigraphs spanned by sets of edges of the graph K m n . We also prove closed formulas for the number of spanning tree of graphs of the form K m n ± G, where G is (i) a complete multipartite graph, and (ii) a multi-star graph. Our results generalize previous results and extend the family of graphs admitting formulas for the number of their spanning trees.
doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-7915-6_13 fatcat:3sio4o7qonbx7gdl5lkj5f7ufa