Operations Research Transactions ›› 2022, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 119-126.doi: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2022.04.010

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Counting the spanning trees for a class of self-similar planar graphs based on techniques from electrical networks

ZHAO Weiliang*, QI Linming   

  1. Zhejiang Industry Polytechnic College, Shaoxing 312000, Zhejiang, China
  • Received:2019-11-27 Published:2022-11-28

Abstract: The Sierpiński gasket pyramid networks are the sketches of the Sierpiński tetrahedra which are the three-dimensional analogue of the Sierpiński triangles. Motivated by the construction of Sierpiński gasket pyramid networks, in this work we study the spanning trees of a new class of self-similar planar networks which has a very similar iterative generating method. By using the self-similarity and employing techniques from electrical networks, we obtain the exact analytical expression for the number of spanning trees of this kind of planar networks as well as the entropy of spanning trees.

Key words: Sierpiński triangle, spanning tree, self-similar, electrically equivalent, entropy

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