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Evolving Spanning Trees Using the Heat Equation
This paper explores how to use the heat kernel to evolve the minimum spanning tree of a graph with time. We use the heat kernel to weight the edges of the graph, and these weights can be computed by exponentiating the Laplacian eigensystem of the graph with time. The resulting spanning trees exhibit an interesting behaviour as time increases. Initially, they are bushy and rooted near the centre of graph, but as time evolves they become string-like and hug the boundary of the graph. We characterise this behaviour using the distribution of terminal nodes with time, and use this distribution for the purposes of graph clustering and image segmentation.
14205748
Edge Detection and Anisotropic Diffusion for Tensor-Valued Images
This paper considers feature space of DT-MRI as a differential manifold with an affine-invariant metric, where we generalise Di Zenzo's structure tensor to tensor-valued images for edge detection. To improve the quality of the edges, we smooth out the noise by generalised Perona-Malik method for tensor images. We demonstrate our algorithm on both synthetic and real DT-MRI data.
195348993
A Riemannian Weighted Filter for Edge-sensitive Image Smoothing
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Z-transformation graphs of perfect matchings of plane bipartite graphs
Abstract Let G be a plane bipartite graph with at least two perfect matchings. The Z -transformation graph, Z F ( G ), of G with respect to a specific set F of faces is defined as a graph on the perfect matchings of G such that two perfect matchings M 1 and M 2 are adjacent provided M 1 and M 2 differ only in a cycle that is the boundary of a face in F . If F is the set of all interior faces, Z F ( G ) is the usual Z -transformation graph; If F contains all faces of G it is a novel graph and called the total Z -transformation graph. In this paper, we give some simple characterizations for the Z -transformation graphs to be connected by applying the above new idea. Furthermore, we show that the total Z -transformation graph of G is 2-connected if G is elementary; the total Z -transformation digraph of G is strongly connected if and only if G is elementary.
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k-Cycle resonant graphs
Abstract A connected graph G is said to be k -cycle resonant if, for 1 ⩽ t ⩽ k , any t disjoint cycles in G are mutually resonant, that is, there is a perfect matching M of G such that each of the t cycles is an M -alternating cycle. In this paper, we at the first time introduce the concept of k -cycle resonant graphs, and investigate some properties of k -cycle resonant graphs. Some simple necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to be k -cycle resonant are given. The construction of k -cycle resonant hexagonal systems are also characterized.
45999842
The number of spanning trees in odd valent circulant graphs
In this paper, we consider the number of spanning trees in circulant graphs. For any class of odd valent circulant graphs C"2"n(a"1,a"2,...,a"k"-"1,n), where a"1,a"2,...,a"k"-"1 are fixed jumps and n varies, some formulas, asymptotic behaviors and linear recurrence relations for the number of its spanning trees are obtained, and some known results on the ones in even valent circulant graphs C"n(a"1,a"2,...,a"k) are improved.
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On the numbers of spanning trees and Eulerian tours in generalized de Bruijn graphs
Abstract In this paper, we give the spectra and characteristic polynomials of generalized de Bruijn graphs. By Tutte's Theorem we can obtain the number of spanning trees and the number of Eulerian tours in such graphs.
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The number of spanning trees of plane graphs with reflective symmetry
A plane graph is called symmetric if it is invariant under the reflection across some straight line (called symmetry axis). Let G be a symmetric plane graph. We prove that if there is no edge in G intersected by its symmetry axis then the number of spanning trees of G can be expressed in terms of the product the number of spanning trees of two smaller graphs. each of which has about half the number of vertices of G.