Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 93B.45 (2025), 11 pp.

Muchen Ju, Junjie Ni, Kaixin Wang and Yihan Xiao

Arborescences of Random Covering Graphs

Abstract. A rooted arborescence of a directed graph is a spanning tree directed towards a particular vertex. A recent work of Chepuri et al. showed that the arborescences of a covering graph of a directed graph G are closely related to the arborescences of G. In this paper, we study the weighted sum of arborescences of a random covering graph and give a formula for the expected value, resolving a conjecture of Chepuri et al.


Received: November 15, 2024. Accepted: February 15, 2025. Final version: April 1, 2025.

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