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Article Dans Une Revue Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Année : 2017

Laplacian matrices and spanning trees of tree graphs

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If G is a strongly connected finite directed graph, the set T G of rooted directed spanning trees of G is naturally equipped with a structure of directed graph: there is a directed edge from any spanning tree to any other obtained by adding an outgoing edge at its root vertex and deleting the outgoing edge of the endpoint. Any Schrödinger operator on G, for example the Laplacian, can be lifted canonically to T G. We show that the determinant of such a lifted Schrödinger operator admits a remarkable factorization into a product of determinants of the restrictions of Schrödinger operators on sub-graphs of G and we give a combinatorial description of the multiplicities using an exploration procedure of the graph. A similar factorization can be obtained from earlier ideas of C. Athaniasadis, but this leads to a different expression of the multiplicities, as signed sums on which the nonnegativity is not appear-ent. We also provide a description of the block structure associated with this factorization. As a simple illustration we reprove a formula of Bernardi enumerating spanning forests of the hypercube, that is closely related to the graph of spanning trees of a bouquet. Several combinatorial questions are left open, such as giving a bijective interpretation of the results.
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hal-01577976 , version 1 (28-08-2017)

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Philippe Biane, Guillaume Chapuy. Laplacian matrices and spanning trees of tree graphs. Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques., 2017, 26, pp.235 - 261. ⟨10.5802/afst.1532⟩. ⟨hal-01577976⟩
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