International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 18 (1995), Issue 4, Pages 653-658
doi:10.1155/S0161171295000834

Homomorphism and sigma polynomials

Richard Alan Gillman

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso 46383, IN, USA

Received 4 October 1993; Revised 16 February 1995

Copyright © 1995 Richard Alan Gillman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

By establishing a connection between the sigma polynomial and the homomorphism polynomial, many of the proofs for computing the sigma polynmial are simplified, the homomorphism polynomial can be identified for several new classes of graphs, and progress can be made on identifying homomorphism polynomials.