Subevent of Contributed Paper Session II-6
‟Counting Spanning Forests” by Daniel Pragel <dpragel@ggc.edu>, Georgia Gwinnett College
Abstract:
A spanning forest of a graph G is an acyclic spanning subgraph of G. When a spanning forest has a single connected component, it is referred to as a spanning tree. A well known theorem from Kirchhoff uses the Laplacian Matrix of G to count the number of spanning trees of G. We extend this method to spanning forests.
Author Notes:
This talk is based on work completed with J.C. Price and Daniel Pinzon of Georgia Gwinnett College.