Milnor numbers of projective hypersurfaces and the chromatic polynomial of graphs

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 907-927

  Huh, June ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic polynomial; Chern Schwartz MacPherson class; Chromatic polynomial; Milnor number; Okounkov body

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859361377     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-2012-00731-0     Document Type: Article

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