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Are Spanning Trees Unique?

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Are Spanning Trees Unique?

Any undirected, connected graph has a spanning tree. If the graph has more than one connected component, each component will have a spanning tree (and the union of these trees will form a spanning forest for the graph). The spanning tree of G is not unique. ... This is called the minimum spanning tree

minimum spanning tree
A minimum spanning tree (MST) or minimum weight spanning tree is a subset of the edges of a connected, edge-weighted undirected graph that connects all the vertices together, without any cycles and with the minimum possible total edge weight.
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(MST) of G.

What makes a spanning tree unique?

In general, a graph may have several spanning trees, but a graph that is not connected will not contain a spanning tree (see spanning forests below). If all of the edges of G are also edges of a spanning tree T of G, then G is a tree and is identical to T (that is, a tree has a unique spanning tree and it is itself).

Do all graphs have spanning trees are spanning trees unique?

All possible spanning trees of graph G, have the same number of edges and vertices.

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