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Subevent of Contributed Papers Session #5 (Graph Theory & Combinatorics)
Stevens Hall 406
2026 Mar 28 from 10:40AM to 10:55AM (Central Time (US & Canada))
Abstract:
In this talk, we investigate the enumeration of spanning forests in complete graphs with a fixed set of vertices in each tree using exponential generating functions. We begin with a brief overview of generating functions and demonstrate how the Tree function (Lambert W function) can be applied to count these forests. This approach leads to an elegant and unified solution that may have broader implications.