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View SchemaAnticoncentration of random spanning trees in almost regular graphs
| Authors | Hyunwoo Lee |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.07740vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07740 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
The celebrated formula of Otter \emph{[Ann. of Math. (2) 49 (1948), 583--599]} asserts that the complete graph contains exponentially many non-isomorphic spanning trees. In this paper, we show that every connected almost regular graph with sufficiently large degree already contains exponentially many non-isomorphic spanning trees. Indeed, we prove a stronger statement: for every fixed $n$-vertex tree $T$, $$ \Pr\bigl[\mathcal{T} \simeq_{\mathrm{iso}} T\bigr] = e^{-\Omega(n)}, $$ where $\mathcal{T}$ is a uniformly random spanning tree of a connected $n$-vertex almost regular graph with sufficiently large degree. To prove this, we introduce a graph-theoretic variant of the classical balls--into--bins model, which may be of independent interest.
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