Spanning trees on graphs and lattices inddimensions

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Abstract: The problem of enumerating spanning trees on graphs and lattices is considered. We obtain bounds on the number of spanning trees NST and establish inequalities relating the numbers of spanning trees of different graphs or lattices. A general formulation is presented for the enumeration of spanning trees on lattices in dgeq2 dimensions, and is applied to the hypercubic, body-centered cubic, face-centered cubic, and specific planar lattices including the kagom'e, diced, 4-8-8 (bathroom-tile), Union Jack, and 3-12-12 lattices. This leads to closed-form expressions for NST for these lattices of finite sizes. We prove a theorem concerning the classes of graphs and lattices calL with the property that NSTsimexp(nzcalL) as the number of vertices noinfty, where zcalL is a finite nonzero constant. This includes the bulk limit of lattices in any spatial dimension, and also sections of lattices whose lengths in some dimensions go to infinity while others are finite. We evaluate zcalL exactly for the lattices we considered, and discuss the dependence of zcalL on d and the lattice coordination number. We also establish a relation connecting zcalL to the free energy of the critical Ising model for planar lattices calL.




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