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Cyclic Critical Groups Of Graphs, Ryan P. Becker, Darren B. Glass Feb 2016

Cyclic Critical Groups Of Graphs, Ryan P. Becker, Darren B. Glass

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In this note, we describe a construction that leads to families of graphs whose critical groups are cyclic. For some of these families we are able to give a formula for the number of spanning trees of the graph, which then determines the group exactly.