{ "id": "math/0403339", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-03-21T21:11:28.000Z", "updated": "2004-03-21T21:11:28.000Z", "title": "The enumeration of edge colorings and Hamiltonian cycles by means of symmetric tensors", "authors": [ "Peter Zograf" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "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 arbitrary length in graphs (in particular, Hamiltonian cycles).", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-03-21T21:11:28.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "hamiltonian cycles", "symmetric tensors", "enumeration", "functions enumerate edge colorings", "graph functions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math......3339Z" } } }