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The number of rooted forests in circulant graphs. / Grunwald, Lilya A.; Mednykh, Ilya.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The number of rooted forests in circulant graphs
AU - Grunwald, Lilya A.
AU - Mednykh, Ilya
N1 - Funding Information: *The authors are grateful to all the three anonymous referees for careful reading of manuscript and valuable remarks and suggestions. The authors were supported by the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, agreement no. 075-15-2019-1613 with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. †Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: lfb o@yahoo.co.uk (Lilya A. Grunwald), ilyamednykh@mail.ru (Ilya Mednykh) Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this paper, we develop a new method to produce explicit formulas for the number fG(n) of rooted spanning forests in the circulant graphs G = Cn(s1, s2, ..., sk) and G = C2n(s1, s2, ..., sk, n). These formulas are expressed through Chebyshev polynomials. We prove that in both cases the number of rooted spanning forests can be represented in the form fG(n) = p a(n)2, where a(n) is an integer sequence and p is a certain natural number depending on the parity of n. Finally, we find an asymptotic formula for fG(n) through the Mahler measure of the associated Laurent polynomial P(z) = 2k+1−Σki=1(zsi +z−si).
AB - In this paper, we develop a new method to produce explicit formulas for the number fG(n) of rooted spanning forests in the circulant graphs G = Cn(s1, s2, ..., sk) and G = C2n(s1, s2, ..., sk, n). These formulas are expressed through Chebyshev polynomials. We prove that in both cases the number of rooted spanning forests can be represented in the form fG(n) = p a(n)2, where a(n) is an integer sequence and p is a certain natural number depending on the parity of n. Finally, we find an asymptotic formula for fG(n) through the Mahler measure of the associated Laurent polynomial P(z) = 2k+1−Σki=1(zsi +z−si).
KW - Chebyshev polynomial
KW - circulant graph
KW - Laplacian matrix
KW - Mahler measure
KW - Rooted tree
KW - spanning forest
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U2 - 10.26493/1855-3974.2029.01d
DO - 10.26493/1855-3974.2029.01d
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138637459
VL - 22
JO - Ars Mathematica Contemporanea
JF - Ars Mathematica Contemporanea
SN - 1855-3966
IS - 4
M1 - #P4.10
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