The chromatic polynomials of signed Petersen graphs

Matthias Beck, Erika Meza, Bryan Nevarez, Alana Shine, Michael Young
2015 Involve. A Journal of Mathematics  
Zaslavsky proved in 2012 that, up to switching isomorphism, there are six different signed Petersen graphs and that they could be told apart by their chromatic polynomials, by showing that the latter give distinct results when evaluated at 3. He conjectured that the six different signed Petersen graphs also have distinct zero-free chromatic polynomials, and that both types of chromatic polynomials have distinct evaluations at any positive integer. We developed and executed a computer program
more » ... nning in SAGE) that efficiently determines the number of proper k-colorings for a given signed graph; our computations for the signed Petersen graphs confirm Zaslavsky's conjecture. We also computed the chromatic polynomials of all signed complete graphs with up to five vertices.
doi:10.2140/involve.2015.8.825 fatcat:rojesxuphzeiznsmj6ztwi27xy