On the number of spanning trees of Knm ± G graphs
Stavros D. Nikolopoulos, Charis Papadopoulos
Abstract
The Kn-complement of a graphG, 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 graphG. In this paper we
extend the previous notion and derive determinant based formulas
for the number of spanning trees of graphs of the form Kn{m}
± G, where Kn{m} is the complete multigraph on n vertices
with exactly m edges joining every pair of vertices and G is a
multigraph spanned by a set of edges of Kn{m}; the graph
Knm + G (resp. Knm - G) is obtained from Kn{m} by
adding (resp. removing) the edges of G. Moreover, we derive
determinant based formulas for graphs that result from Kn{m}
by adding and removing edges of multigraphs spanned by sets of
edges of the graph Knm. We also prove closed formulas for the
number of spanning tree of graphs of the form K{n}m ± 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.
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