IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
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Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Formulas for Counting the Numbers of Connected Spanning Subgraphs with at Most n+1 Edges in a Complete Graph Kn
Peng CHENGShigeru MASUYAMA
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2008 Volume E91.A Issue 9 Pages 2314-2321

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Let Ni be the number of connected spanning subgraphs with i(n-1≤im) edges in an n-vertex m-edge undirected graph G=(V,E). Although Nn-1 is computed in polynomial time by the Matrixtree theorem, whether Nn is efficiently computed for a graph G is an open problem (see e. g., [2]). On the other hand, whether N2nNn-1Nn+1 for a graph G is also open as a part of log concave conjecture (see e. g., [6], [12]). In this paper, for a complete graph Kn, we give the formulas for Nn, Nn+1, by which Nn, Nn+1 are respectively computed in polvnomial time on n, and, in particular, prove N2n>(n-1)(n-2)/n(n-3)Nn-1Nn+1 as well.

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