Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4648241 | Discrete Mathematics | 2012 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We give an upper bound and a class of lower bounds on the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a simple binary matroid. This generalizes the corresponding bounds for graphic matroids of Li and Tian (1978) [3], as well as a matroid lower bound of Björner (1980) [1] for simple binary matroids. As the flow polynomial of a graph GG is the characteristic polynomial of the dual matroid M∗(G)M∗(G), the bound applies to flow polynomials.
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Authors
Loni Delaplane, Haidong Wu,