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JOURNALS // Sibirskie Èlektronnye Matematicheskie Izvestiya [Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports] // Archive

Sib. Èlektron. Mat. Izv., 2018 Volume 15, Pages 1145–1157 (Mi semr984)

This article is cited in 4 papers

Discrete mathematics and mathematical cybernetics

Counting spanning trees in cobordism of two circulant graphs

N. V. Abrosimovab, G. A. Baigonakovac, I. A. Mednykhab

a Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, pr. Koptyuga, 4, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
b Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova str., 1, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
c Gorno-Altaysk State University, Socialisticheskaya str., 34, 639000, Gorno-Altaysk, Russia

Abstract: We consider a family of graphs $H_n(s_1,\dots,s_k;t_1,\dots,t_\ell)$ that is a generalisation of the family of $I$-graphs, which, in turn, includes the generalized Petersen graphs. We present an explicit formula for the number $\tau(n)$ of spanning trees in these graphs in terms of the Chebyshev polynomials and find its asymptotics. Also, we show that the number of spanning trees can be represented in the form $\tau(n)=p\,n\,a(n)^2,$ where $a(n)$ is an integer sequence and $p$ is a prescribed integer depending on the number of even elements in the sequence $s_1,\dots,s_k,t_1,\dots,t_\ell$ and the parity of $n$.

Keywords: circulant graph, $I$-graph, Petersen graph, spanning tree, Chebyshev polynomial, Mahler measure.

UDC: 519.175.3, 519.172

MSC: 05C30, 39A10

Received June 6, 2018, published October 10, 2018

Language: English

DOI: 10.17377/semi.2018.15.093



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