2 papers
math.CO2026
On derivatives and higher-order derivatives of chromatic polynomials
Bo Ning, Yan Yang
Let \( G \) be a graph of order \( n \) with maximum degree , and let denote its chromatic polynomial. We investigate several properties of related to its der…
math.CO2026
On a conjecture concerning the property of chromatic polynomials with negative variables
Yan Yang
Let be a graph of order and be the chromatic polynomial of . Dong, Ge, Gong, Ning, Ouyang, and Tay (J. Graph Theory 96(2021) 343) conjectured that $\frac{d^k}{d…