A combinatorial derivation of the number of labeled forests
David Callan
Abstract
Lajos Takacs gave a somewhat formidable alternating sum formula for the number of forests of unrooted trees on n labeled vertices. Here we use a weight-reversing involution on suitable tree configurations to give a combinatorial derivation of Takacs' formula.
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