{ "id": "1201.3886", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-01-18T19:30:40.000Z", "updated": "2012-01-18T19:30:40.000Z", "title": "Closed-form expansions for the bivariate chromatic polynomial of paths and cycles", "authors": [ "Klaus Dohmen" ], "comment": "4 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We establish closed-form expansions for the number of colorings of a path or cycle on n vertices with colors from 1,...,x such that adjacent vertices are colored differently or with colors from y+1,...x.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-01-18T19:30:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15", "05A15", "05C30" ], "keywords": [ "bivariate chromatic polynomial", "adjacent vertices", "establish closed-form expansions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1201.3886D" } } }