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Main Authors: Pylyavskyy, Pavlo, Shirokovskikh, Svetlana, Skopenkov, Mikhail
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14039
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author Pylyavskyy, Pavlo
Shirokovskikh, Svetlana
Skopenkov, Mikhail
author_facet Pylyavskyy, Pavlo
Shirokovskikh, Svetlana
Skopenkov, Mikhail
contents We study multiport networks, common in electrical engineering. They have boundary conditions different from electrical networks: the boundary vertices are split into pairs and the sum of the incoming currents is set to be zero in each pair. If one sets the voltage difference for each pair, then the incoming currents are uniquely determined. We generalize Kirchhoff's matrix-tree theorem to this setup. Different forests now contribute with different signs, making the proof subtle. In particular, we use the formula for the response matrix minors by R. Kenyon-D. Wilson, determinantal identities, and combinatorial bijections. We introduce superport networks, generalizing both ordinary networks and multiport ones.
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spellingShingle Superport networks
Pylyavskyy, Pavlo
Shirokovskikh, Svetlana
Skopenkov, Mikhail
Combinatorics
Mathematical Physics
05C82, 05C22, 94C05, 31C20, 35R02, 52C20
We study multiport networks, common in electrical engineering. They have boundary conditions different from electrical networks: the boundary vertices are split into pairs and the sum of the incoming currents is set to be zero in each pair. If one sets the voltage difference for each pair, then the incoming currents are uniquely determined. We generalize Kirchhoff's matrix-tree theorem to this setup. Different forests now contribute with different signs, making the proof subtle. In particular, we use the formula for the response matrix minors by R. Kenyon-D. Wilson, determinantal identities, and combinatorial bijections. We introduce superport networks, generalizing both ordinary networks and multiport ones.
title Superport networks
topic Combinatorics
Mathematical Physics
05C82, 05C22, 94C05, 31C20, 35R02, 52C20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14039