Algebraic Combinatorics

by Chris Godsil

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 instructive to consider these polynomials together because they have a number of properties in common. The matchings polynomial has links with a number...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412041316
• ISBN13: 9780412041310
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary