{ "id": "math/0609179", "version": "v1", "published": "2006-09-06T15:44:05.000Z", "updated": "2006-09-06T15:44:05.000Z", "title": "Note on the number of proper colorings of a graph", "authors": [ "Martin Klazar" ], "comment": "3 pages. Not to be submitted!", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We present a simpler proof of a bound on the number of proper colorings of a graph that was obtained recently by Liu and Murty using Tur'an sieve (in fact, we prove a stronger inequality). We also point out that these results are subsumed in a stronger result due to Lazebnik in 1990.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2006-09-06T15:44:05.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15" ], "keywords": [ "proper colorings", "simpler proof", "turan sieve", "stronger inequality", "stronger result" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 3, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2006math......9179K" } } }