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odom -> base_link. You are building a tree starting from a fixed frame and going down the attached things.
What do you mean with formula? It should be the robot's motion estimation.
Do you mean output for debugging or generate? For the former use tf_echo (or display in rviz), for the latter: Yes, that's what it's supposed to do.

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