cyclically irreducible word;
proper word;
chromatic polynomial of a graph;
Whitney formula for the chromatic polynomial of a simple cycle;
D O I:
10.1007/s10559-007-0076-0
中图分类号:
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号:
0812 ;
摘要:
It is shown that a formula that was independently obtained earlier for the number of cyclically irreducible words of length n in a symmetric alphabet of a finitely generated free group of rank k and the Whitney formula for a chromatic polynomial of a simple nonself-intersecting cycle of length n with a variable lambda are mutually deducible from one another when lambda = 2k. The necessary bijections differ for even and odd values of n.