scholarly journals A Combinatorial Proof of a Formula of Biane and Chapuy

10.37236/7061 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinho Chewi ◽  
Venkat Anantharam

Let $G$ be a simple strongly connected weighted directed graph. Let $\mathcal{G}$ denote the spanning tree graph of $G$. That is, the vertices of $\mathcal{G}$ consist of the directed rooted spanning trees on $G$, and the edges of $\mathcal{G}$ consist of pairs of trees $(t_i, t_j)$ such that $t_j$ can be obtained from $t_i$ by adding the edge from the root of $t_i$ to the root of $t_j$ and deleting the outgoing edge from $t_j$. A formula for the ratio of the sum of the weights of the directed rooted spanning trees on $\mathcal{G}$ to the sum of the weights of the directed rooted spanning trees on $G$ was recently given by Biane and Chapuy. Our main contribution is an alternative proof of this formula, which is both simple and combinatorial.

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650003
Author(s):  
QINGLING WANG ◽  
YUANDA WANG

This paper addresses the exponential consensus problem of single-integrator agents with saturated protocols on directed graphs. By employing an integral Lyapunov function, the exponential consensus problem of single-integrator agents is solved under the directed graph with strongly connected or a spanning tree. The main contribution is that under the directed graph, some conditions for exponential consensus with saturated protocols are first obtained. Finally, two examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.


2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.B. Bapat ◽  
S. Sivasubramanian

Let G be a strongly connected, weighted directed graph. We define a product distance ?(i,j) for pairs i,j of vertices and form the corresponding product distance matrix. We obtain a formula for the determinant and the inverse of the product distance matrix. The edge orientation matrix of a directed tree is defined and a formula for its determinant and its inverse, when it exists, is obtained. A formula for the determinant of the (entry-wise) squared distance matrix of a tree is proved.


2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350022 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUNXIA YANG ◽  
YING SHEN ◽  
BINGYING XIA

In this paper, using a moving window to scan through every stock price time series over a period from 2 January 2001 to 11 March 2011 and mutual information to measure the statistical interdependence between stock prices, we construct a corresponding weighted network for 501 Shanghai stocks in every given window. Next, we extract its maximal spanning tree and understand the structure variation of Shanghai stock market by analyzing the average path length, the influence of the center node and the p-value for every maximal spanning tree. A further analysis of the structure properties of maximal spanning trees over different periods of Shanghai stock market is carried out. All the obtained results indicate that the periods around 8 August 2005, 17 October 2007 and 25 December 2008 are turning points of Shanghai stock market, at turning points, the topology structure of the maximal spanning tree changes obviously: the degree of separation between nodes increases; the structure becomes looser; the influence of the center node gets smaller, and the degree distribution of the maximal spanning tree is no longer a power-law distribution. Lastly, we give an analysis of the variations of the single-step and multi-step survival ratios for all maximal spanning trees and find that two stocks are closely bonded and hard to be broken in a short term, on the contrary, no pair of stocks remains closely bonded for a long time.


2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 3480-3483
Author(s):  
Shou Wen Ji ◽  
Zeng Rong Su ◽  
Zhi Hua Zhang

The paper analyzes the extended spanning trees elements corresponding to fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) logistics quality. According to extended spanning tree, we establish a logic model of FMCGs logistics quality causal tracing. At last, the paper gives out tracing algorithm and specific tracing process of FMCG logistics quality based on extended spanning tree.


1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 809-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Michael Steele ◽  
Lawrence A. Shepp ◽  
William F. Eddy

Let Vk,n be the number of vertices of degree k in the Euclidean minimal spanning tree of Xi, , where the Xi are independent, absolutely continuous random variables with values in Rd. It is proved that n–1Vk,n converges with probability 1 to a constant α k,d. Intermediate results provide information about how the vertex degrees of a minimal spanning tree change as points are added or deleted, about the decomposition of minimal spanning trees into probabilistically similar trees, and about the mean and variance of Vk,n.


10.37236/2479 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Kotrbčík ◽  
Martin Škoviera

We study the interplay between the maximum genus of a graph and bases of its cycle space via the corresponding intersection graph. Our main results show that the matching number of the intersection graph is independent of the basis precisely when the graph is upper-embeddable, and completely describe the range of matching numbers when the graph is not upper-embeddable. Particular attention is paid to cycle bases consisting of fundamental cycles with respect to a given spanning tree. For $4$-edge-connected graphs, the intersection graph with respect to any spanning tree (and, in fact, with respect to any basis) has either a perfect matching or a matching missing exactly one vertex. We show that if a graph is not $4$-edge-connected, different spanning trees may lead to intersection graphs with different matching numbers. We also show that there exist $2$-edge connected graphs for which the set of values of matching numbers of their intersection graphs contains arbitrarily large gaps.


Author(s):  
Gábor Kusper ◽  
Csaba Biró

In a previous paper we defined the Black-and-White SAT problem which has exactly two solutions, where each variable is either true or false. We showed that Black-and-White $2$-SAT problems represent strongly connected directed graphs. We presented also the strong model of communication graphs. In this work we introduce two new models, the weak model, and the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model of communication graphs. A communication graph is a directed graph, where no self loops are allowed. In this work we show that the weak model of a strongly connected communication graph is a Black-and-White SAT problem. We prove a powerful theorem, the so called Transitions Theorem. This theorem states that for any model which is between the strong and the weak model, we have that this model represents strongly connected communication graphs as Blask-and-White SAT problems. We show that the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model is between the strong and the weak model, and it generates $3$-SAT problems, so the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model represents strongly connected communication graphs as Black-and-White $3$-SAT problems. Our motivation to study these models is the following: The strong model generates a $2$-SAT problem from the input directed graph, so it does not give us a deep insight how to convert a general SAT problem into a directed graph. The weak model generates huge models, because it represents all cycles, even non-simple cycles, of the input directed graph. We need something between them to gain more experience. From the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model we learned that it is enough to have a subset of a clause, which represents a cycle in the weak model, to make the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model more compact. We still do not know how to represent a SAT problem as a directed graph, but this work gives a strong link between two prominent fields of formal methods: SAT problem and directed graphs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Dolińska ◽  
Mariusz Jakubowski ◽  
Antoni Masiukiewicz ◽  
Grzegorz Rządkowski ◽  
Kamil Piórczyński

Abstract Channel assignment in 2.4 GHz band of 802.11 standard is still important issue as a lot of 2.4 GHz devices are in use. This band offers only three non-overlapping channels, so in crowded environment users can suffer from high interference level. In this paper, a greedy algorithm inspired by the Prim’s algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees (MSTs) in undirected graphs is considered for channel assignment in this type of networks. The proposed solution tested for example network distributions achieves results close to the exhaustive approach and is, in many cases, several orders of magnitude faster.


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