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Note on the number of proper colorings of a graph

2006/09/06 by Klazar, Martin
#05C15 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0609179

Abstract

We present a simpler proof of a bound on the number of proper colorings of a graph that was obtained recently by Liu and Murty using Tur'an sieve (in fact, we prove a stronger inequality). We also point out that these results are subsumed in a stronger result due to Lazebnik in 1990.

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