Counting the spanning trees of the 3-cube using edge slides

نویسنده

  • Christopher P. Tuffley
چکیده

We give a direct combinatorial proof of the known fact that the 3-cube has 384 spanning trees, using an “edge slide” operation on spanning trees. This gives an answer in the case n = 3 to a question implicitly raised by Stanley. Our argument also gives a bijective proof of the n = 3 case of a weighted count of the spanning trees of the n-cube due to Martin and Reiner.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Australasian J. Combinatorics

دوره 54  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012