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Volume 5, Issue 3, Article 64 |
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Inequalities of Bonferroni-Galambos Type with Applications to the Tutte Polynomial and the Chromatic Polynomial
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Authors: |
Klaus Dohmen, Peter Tittmann, |
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Keywords:
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Bonferroni inequalities, Inclusion-exclusion, Tutte polynomial, Chromatic polynomial, Graph, Matroid |
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Date Received:
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16/03/04 |
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Date Accepted:
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10/06/04 |
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Subject Codes: |
Primary: 05A20, secondary: 05B35, 05C15,
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Editors: |
Sever S. Dragomir, |
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Abstract: |
In this paper, we generalize the classical Bonferroni inequalities and their improvements by Galambos to sums of type where is a finite set and . The result is applied to the Tutte polynomial of a matroid and the chromatic polynomial of a graph.
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