Counting spanning trees in directed regular multigraphs

Abstract The problem of counting spanning trees in regular multigraphs is considered. The emphasis is on the case of directed trees. It is shown that the numbers of spanning in-trees and out-trees with respect to any point of a regular multigraph are the same. A general formula for counting directed spanning trees with the use of graph eigenvalues is introduced. Formulae for computing eigenvalues of Cayley multigraphs are presented.