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We define the $d$-defective incidence chromatic number of a graph, generalizing the notion of incidence chromatic number, and determine it for some classes of graphs including trees, complete bipartite graphs, complete graphs, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Huimin Bi , Xin Zhang

Motivated by the question of which structural properties of a graph can be recovered from the chromatic symmetric function (CSF), we study the CSF of connected unicyclic graphs. While it is known that there can be non-isomorphic unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Aram Bingham , Lisa Johnston , Colin Lawson , Rosa Orellana , Jianping Pan , Chelsea Sato

We show that there exist linear-time algorithms that compute the strong chromatic index and a maximum induced matching of tree-cographs when the decomposition tree is a part of the input. We also show that there exist efficient algorithms…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-01 Ton Kloks , Chin-Ting Ung , Yue-Li Wang

Let $N(X)$ be the Laplacian matrix of a directed graph obtained from the edge adjacency matrix of a graph $X.$ In this work, we study the bipartiteness property of the graph with the help of $N(X).$ We computed the spectrum of the edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Shivani Chauhan , A. Satyanarayana Reddy

Motivated by the definition of the edge elimination polynomial of a graph we define the covered components polynomial counting spanning subgraphs with respect to their number of components, edges and covered components. We prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Martin Trinks

Following Penrose, we introduce a family of graph functions defined in terms of contractions of certain products of symmetric tensors along the edges of a graph. Special cases of these functions enumerate edge colorings and cycles of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Zograf

We study functional graphs generated by quadratic polynomials over prime fields. We introduce efficient algorithms for methodical computations and provide the values of various direct and cumulative statistical parameters of interest. These…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Bernard Mans , Min Sha , Igor E. Shparlinski , Daniel Sutantyo

We present a determinantal formula for the number of spanning trees of a complete multipartite graph containing a given spanning forest $F$. Our approach relies on the Generalized Matrix Determinant Lemma and Jacobi's formula for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Wei Wang , Jun Ge

Chromatic polynomials and related graph invariants are central objects in both graph theory and statistical physics. Computational difficulties, however, have so far restricted studies of such polynomials to graphs that were either very…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 Frank Van Bussel , Christoph Ehrlich , Denny Fliegner , Sebastian Stolzenberg , Marc Timme

In this paper, using matrix techniques, we compute the Ihara-zeta function and the number of spanning trees of the join of two semi-regular bipartite graphs. Furthermore, we show that the spectrum and the zeta function of the join of two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Xiaotong Li , Xian'an Jin , Qi Yan

Chromatic polynomials are important objects in graph theory and statistical physics, but as a result of computational difficulties, their study is limited to graphs that are small, highly structured, or very sparse. We have devised and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Yvonne Kemper , Isabel Beichl

It is known that the Ehrhart polynomials of cross-polytopes, as well as of pyramids over them, have positive coefficients. We give a combinatorial proof of this fact by showing that a scaled version of the Ehrhart polynomials are generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Krishna Menon , Emil Verkama

After the discovery of Khovanov homology, which categorifies the Jones polynomial, an analogous categorification of the chromatic polynomial, known as chromatic homology, was introduced. Its graded Euler characteristic recovers the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Aninda Banerjee , Apratim Chakraborty , Swarup Kumar Das , Pravakar Paul

The bipartition polynomial of a graph is a generalization of many other graph polynomials, including the domination, Ising, matching, independence, cut, and Euler polynomial. We show in this paper that it is also a powerful tool for proving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Seongmin Ok , Peter Tittmann

We introduce path-conjoined graphs defined for two rooted graphs by joining their roots with a path, and investigate the chromatic symmetric functions of its two generalizations: spider-conjoined graphs and chain-conjoined graphs. By using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 E. Y. J. Qi , D. Q. B. Tang , D. G. L. Wang

A \emph{chromatic root} is a root of the chromatic polynomial of a graph. Any chromatic root is an algebraic integer. Much is known about the location of chromatic roots in the real and complex numbers, but rather less about their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Peter J. Cameron , Kerri Morgan

The chromatic functor of a simple graph is a functorization of the chromatic polynomial. M. Yoshinaga showed in \cite{Yoshinaga2015} that two finite graphs have isomorphic chromatic functors if and only if they have the same chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Ye Liu

We show that specific exponential bivariate integrals serve as generating functions of labeled edge-bicolored graphs. Based on this, we prove an asymptotic formula for the number of regular edge-bicolored graphs with arbitrary weights…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Michael Borinsky , Chiara Meroni , Maximilian Wiesmann

A recent result of Lofano and Paolini expresses the characteristic polynomial of a real hyperplane arrangement in terms of a projection statistic on the regions of the arrangement. We use this result to give an alternative proof for Greene…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Neha Goregaokar

We give combinatorial criteria for predicting the transcendental weight of Feynman integrals of certain graphs in $\phi^4$ theory. By studying spanning forest polynomials, we obtain operations on graphs which are weight-preserving, and a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Francis Brown , Karen Yeats