• Title of article

    Non-chordal graphs having integral-root chromatic polynomials II

  • Author/Authors

    F.M. Dong، نويسنده , , K.L. Teo، نويسنده , , K.M. Koh، نويسنده , , M.D. Hendy، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    247
  • To page
    253
  • Abstract
    It is known that the chromatic polynomial of any chordal graph has only integer roots. However, there also exist non-chordal graphs whose chromatic polynomials have only integer roots. Dmitriev asked in 1980 if for any integer p⩾4, there exists a graph with chordless cycles of length p whose chromatic polynomial has only integer roots. This question has been given positive answers by Dong and Koh for p=4 and p=5. In this paper, we construct a family of graphs in which all chordless cycles are of length p for any integer p⩾4. It is shown that the chromatic polynomial of such a graph has only integer roots iff a polynomial of degree p−1 has only integer roots. By this result, this paper extends Dong and Kohʹs result for p=5 and answer the question affirmatively for p=6 and 7.
  • Keywords
    Chordal graphs , Chromatic polynomials
  • Journal title
    Discrete Mathematics
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Discrete Mathematics
  • Record number

    949968