A family of bijections between G-parking functions and spanning trees

Denis Chebikin, Pavlo Pylyavskyy

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Abstract

For a directed graph G on vertices {0, 1,...,n}, a G-parking function is an n-tuple (b1,...,bn) of non-negative integers such that, for every non-empty subset U ⊆ {1,...,n}, there exists a vertex j ∈ U for which there are more than bj edges going from j to G - U. We construct a family of bijective maps between the set PG of G-parking functions and the set TG of spanning trees of G rooted at 0, thus providing a combinatorial proof of PG = TG .

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)31-41
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A
Volume110
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2005

Keywords

  • Parking functions
  • Spanning trees

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