Reliability Polynomials and Their Asymptotic Limits for Families of Graphs

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 1019-1077

  Chang, Shu Chiuan ^a,b   Shrock, Robert ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Potts model; Reliability polynomial; Tutte polynomial

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038167277     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024663508526     Document Type: Article

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