Abstract:
The article consists of two parts. In the first part, partial ordering of trees and the notion of the spanning tree of a connected graph are introduced, and, on the basis of the last one, a classification of connected graphs is given. In the second part, the notion of spanning tree of a block is introduced and, on its basis, a classification of blocks is given. The obtained results have applications to statistical mechanics. Most of them have been announced in the recent article of the author [Teor. Mat. Fiz. 84, No. 2, 279–289 (1990)].