Bounds on the Complex Zeros of (Di)Chromatic Polynomials and Potts-Model Partition Functions

Combinatorics Probability and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-77

  Sokal, Alan D ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0963548300004612     Document Type: Article

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