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Almost all trees share a complete set of immanantal polynomials

✍ Scribed by Phillip Botti; Russell Merris


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
371 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-9024

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

Let χ be an irreducible character of the symmetric group S~n~. For an n‐by‐n matrix A = (a~ij~), define
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If G is a graph, let D(G) be the diagonal matrix of its vertex degrees and A(G) its adjacency matrix. Let y and z be independent indeterminates, and define L(G) = yD(G) + zA(G). Suppose t~n~ is the number of trees on n vertices and s~n~ is the number of such trees T for which there exists a nonisomorphic tree such that d~χ~(xl ‐ L(T)) = d~x~(xl ‐ L()) for every irreducible character χ of S~n~. Then lim~n→∞~ S~n~/t~n~ = 1. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.