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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

THE CHROMATIC EQUIVALENCE CLASS OF GRAPH (Bn−6,1,2)

Jianfeng Wang1,2, Qiongxiang Huang2, Chengfu Ye1  and  Ruying Liu1

1Department of Mathematics and Information Science
Qinghai Normal University, Xining, Qinghai 810008, P.R. China

2College of Mathematics and System Science
Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, P.R. China
e-mail: jfwang4@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract

By h(G,x) and P(G, λ) we denote the adjoint polynomial and the chromatic polynomial of graph G, respectively. A new invariant of graph G, which is the fourth character R4(G), is given in this paper. Using the properties of the adjoint polynomials, the adjoint equivalence class of graph Bn−6,1,2 is determined, which can be regarded as the continuance of the paper written by Wang et al.  [J. Wang, R. Liu, C. Ye and Q. Huang, A complete solution to the chromatic equivalence class of graph (Bn−7,1,3), Discrete Math. (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2007.07.030]. According to the relations between h(G,x) and P(G, λ), we also simultaneously determine the chromatic equivalence class of (Bn−6,1,2) that is the complement of Bn−6,1,2.

Keywords: chromatic equivalence class, adjoint polynomial, the smallest real root, the second smallest real root, the fourth character.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C15, 05C60.

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