Component-number zero-one law for the wired uniform spanning forest
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Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For a locally finite connected graph with positive electrical conductances, the number of trees in its wired uniform spanning forest is almost surely a deterministic constant, possibly infinite. A precise characterization uses independent random walks with the conductance transition probabilities. Let be the probability that their full vertex ranges are pairwise disjoint. ThenThe right side depends only on the electrical network. The proof amplifies positive disjointness probability to probabilities arbitrarily close to one, then uses Wilson's algorithm rooted at infinity to obtain at least components. Conversely, distinct components force starting vertices admitting positive disjointness probability. This establishes the constant without treating component count as automatically invariant under finite edge changes.[ref]
Uniform Spanning Forests by Itai Benjamini and others. Theorem9.4, printed pages32–33
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