The bipartite analogue of a classical spanning tree enumeration formula, Boolean functions, and their applications to counting odd spanning trees
摘要
Recently, Zheng and Wu defined the concept of odd spanning tree of a graph, meaning a spanning tree in which every vertex has odd degree. Similar to Cayley’s formula, Feng, Chen and Wu counted the number of odd spanning trees in complete graphs via Prüfer code and the exponential generating function. In this note, we prove the bipartite analogue of a classical spanning tree enumeration formula. By using them and the Boolean function, we give simple proofs for the number of odd spanning trees of complete graphs and complete bipartite graphs.