Algebraic Integers as Chromatic and Domination Roots
Author(s) -
Saeid Alikhani,
Roslan Hasni
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of combinatorics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1687-9171
pISSN - 1687-9163
DOI - 10.1155/2012/780765
Subject(s) - algorithm , computer science
Let be a simple graph of order and . A mapping is called a -colouring of if whenever the vertices and are adjacent in . The number of distinct -colourings of , denoted by , is called the chromatic polynomial of . The domination polynomial of is the polynomial , where is the number of dominating sets of of size . Every root of and is called the chromatic root and the domination root of , respectively. Since chromatic polynomial and domination polynomial are monic polynomial with integer coefficients, its zeros are algebraic integers. This naturally raises the question: which algebraic integers can occur as zeros of chromatic and domination polynomials? In this paper, we state some properties of this kind of algebraic integers.
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