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Chromatic roots of a ring of four cliques
Citation
Dong, F. M., Royle, G., & Wagner, D. (2011). Chromatic roots of a ring of four cliques. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 18(1), Article P151. http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/v18i1p151/pdf
Abstract
For any positive integers a, b, c, d, let Ra,b,c,d be the graph obtained from the complete graphs Ka,Kb,Kc and Kd by adding edges joining every vertex in Ka and Kc to every vertex in Kb and Kd. This paper shows that for arbitrary positive integers a, b, c and d, every root of the chromatic polynomial of Ra,b,c,d is either a real number or a non-real number with its real part equal to (a + b + c + d − 1)/2.
Date Issued
2011
Publisher
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Journal
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics