The alternating and adjacency polynomials, and their relation with the spectra and diameters of graphs

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 87, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 77-97

  Fiol, M A ^a   Garriga, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adjacency polynomials; Conditional diameters; Eigenvalues

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010709154     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(98)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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