On Brenti's conjecture about the log-concavity of the chromatic polynomial

Details On Brenti's conjecture about the log-concavity of the chromatic polynomial On Brenti's conjecture about the log-concavity of the chromatic polynomial

2011-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/1104.0707v4

Mathematics

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The chromatic polynomial is a well studied object in graph theory. There are many results and conjectures about the log-concavity of the chromatic polynomial and other polynomials related to it. The location of the roots of these polynomials has also been well studied. One famous result due to A. Sokal and C. Borgs provides a bound on the absolute value of the roots of the chromatic polynomial in terms of the highest degree of the graph. We use this result to prove a modification of a log-concavity conjecture due to F. Brenti. The original conjecture of Brenti was that the chromatic polynomial is log-concave on the natural numbers. This was disproved by Paul Seymour by presenting a counter example. We show that the chromatic polynomial $P_G(q)$ of graph $G$ is in fact log-concave for all $q > C\Delta + 1$ for an explicit constant $C < 10$, where $\Delta$ denotes the highest degree of $G$. We also provide an example which shows that the result is not true for constants $C$ smaller than 1.

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