On the number of spanning trees in random regular graphs (Q405137)

Summary: Let \(d\geq 3\) be a fixed integer. We give an asympotic formula for the expected~number of spanning trees in a uniformly random \(d\)-regular graph with \(n\) vertices. (The asymptotics are as \(n\to\infty\), restricted to even \(n\) if \(d\) is odd.) We also obtain the asymptotic distribution of the number of spanning trees in a uniformly random cubic graph, and conjecture that the corresponding result holds for arbitrary (fixed) \(d\). Numerical evidence is presented which supports our conjecture.