• Title of article

    A unified approach to the first derivatives of graph polynomials

  • Author/Authors

    King-Tim Mak، نويسنده , , Andrew J. Morton، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1995
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    293
  • To page
    297
  • Abstract
    A general graph polynomial P(G, x) is introduced. It is proved that ddxP(G,x)= ∑v∈V(G) P(G−v,x). Special cases of this result are the previously reported first-derivative formulas for a number of graph polynomials: characteristic, matching, independence, clique polynomials, etc.
  • Journal title
    Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Serial Year
    1995
  • Journal title
    Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Record number

    884203