The Random Walk Construction of Uniform Spanning Trees and Uniform Labelled Trees

A random walk on a finite graph can be used to construct a uniform random spanning tree. It is shown how random walk techniques can be applied to the study of several properties of the uniform random spanning tree: the proportion of leaves, the distribution of degrees, and the diameter.

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