The wired uniform spanning forest of an infinite graph is the weak limit of uniform spanning trees on finite exhaustions whose exterior vertices are identified to one wired boundary vertex.
Wilson's algorithm rooted at infinity builds the wired uniform spanning forest on a transient graph by successively adding loop-erased random walks, run forever when they never hit the forest already constructed.
The number of trees in a wired uniform spanning forest is almost surely constant. This follows from its tail triviality together with the fact that every component is infinite.
A directed spanning tree rooted towards a vertex is a spanning tree whose edges are oriented so that every other vertex has a unique directed path to .
The matrix-tree theorem expresses the weighted number of spanning trees of a finite graph as a cofactor of its graph Laplacian. For a directed graph with out-Laplacian , deleting the row and column indexed by a root giveswhere the sum runs over directed spanning trees rooted towards .
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