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This graduate level text is distinguished both by the range of topics and the novelty of the material it treats--more than half of the material in it has previously only appeared in research papers. The first half of this book introduces the characteristic and matchings polynomials of a graph. It is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godsil, C. D. (Christopher David), 1949-
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Chapman & Hall mathematics.
Subjects:
Combinatorial analysis.
Analyse combinatoire.
MATHEMATICS / General
MATHEMATICS / Combinatorics
Combinatorial analysis
Kombinatorische Analysis
Combinatieleer.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The matchings polynomial
  • The characteristic polynomial
  • Formal power series and generating functions
  • Walk generating functions
  • Quotients of graphs
  • Matchings and walks
  • Pfaffians
  • Orthogonal polynomials
  • Moment sequences
  • Strongly regular graphs
  • Distance-regular graphs
  • Association schemes
  • Representations of distance-regular graphs
  • Polynomial spaces
  • Q-polynomial spaces
  • Tight designs.