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For any given graph $G$ consider a graph $\widetilde{G}$ which is a cone over graph $G.$ In this paper, we study two important invariants of such a cone. Namely, complexity (the number of spanning trees) and the Jacobian of a graph. We prove that complexity of graph $\widetilde{G}$ coincides the number of rooted spanning forests in graph $G$ and the Jacobian of $\widetilde{G}$ is isomorphic to cokernel of the operator $I+L(G),$ where $L(G)$ is Laplacian of $G$ and $I$ is the identity matrix. As a consequence, one can calculate the complexity of $\widetilde{G}$ as $\det(I+L(G)).$, Comment: 14 pages

In this paper, we develop a new method to produce explicit formulas for the number $f_{G}(n)$ of rooted spanning forests in the circulant graphs $ G=C_{n}(s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_k)$ and $ G=C_{2n}(s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_k,n).$ These formulas are expressed through Chebyshev polynomials. We prove that in both cases the number of rooted spanning forests can be represented in the form $f_{G}(n)=p\,a(n)^2,$ where $a(n)$ is an integer sequence and $p$ is a prescribed natural number depending on the parity of $n$. Finally, we find an asymptotic formula for $f_{G}(n)$ through the Mahler measure of the associated Laurent polynomial $P(z)=2k+1-\sum\limits_{i=1}^k(z^{s_i}+z^{-s_i}).$, Comment: 14 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1711.00175, arXiv:1812.04484