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Chromatic Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

W. T. Tutte
W. T. Tutte*
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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Early in the Seventies I sought the number of rooted λ-coloured triangulations of the sphere with 2p faces. In these triangulations double joins, but not loops, were permitted. The investigation soon took the form of a discussion of a certain formal power series l(y, z, λ) in two independent variables y and z.

The basic theory of l is set out in [1]. There l is defined as the coefficient of x2 in a more complicated power series g(x, y, z, λ). But the definition is equivalent to the following formula.

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Here T denotes a general rooted triangulation. n(T) is the valency of its root-vertex, and 2p(T) is the number of its faces. P(T, λ) is the chromatic polynomial of the graph of T.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , 01 June 1982 , pp. 741 - 758
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

References

1. Tutte, W. T., Chromatic sums for rooted planar triangulations: the cases λ = 1 and λ = 2, Can. J. Math. 25 (1973), 426–447.Google Scholar
2. Tutte, W. T., Chromatic sums for rooted planar triangulations II: the case λ = ⸆ +• l, Can. J. Math. 25 (1973), 657–671.Google Scholar
3. Tutte, W. T., Chromatic sums for rooted planar triangulations III: the case λ = 3, Can. J. Math. 25 (1973), 780–790.Google Scholar
4. Tutte, W. T., Chromatic sums for rooted planar triangulations V: special equations, Can. J. Math. 26 (1974), 893–907.Google Scholar
5. Tutte, W. T., On a pair of functional equations of combinatorial interest, Aequationes Math. 17 (1978), 121–140.Google Scholar