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David G.L. Wang
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, 102488, P.R. China
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Log-concavity of the genus polynomials of Ringel Ladders Jonathan L Gross; Toufik Mansour; Thomas W. Tucker; David G.L. Wang
Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications (EJGTA) Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications
Publisher : GTA Research Group, Univ. Newcastle, Indonesian Combinatorics Society and ITB

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5614/ejgta.2015.3.2.1

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A Ringel ladder can be formed by a self-bar-amalgamation operation on a symmetric ladder, that is, by joining the root vertices on its end-rungs. The present authors have previously derived criteria under which linear chains of copies of one or more graphs have log-concave genus polyno- mials. Herein we establish Ringel ladders as the first significant non-linear infinite family of graphs known to have log-concave genus polynomials. We construct an algebraic representation of self-bar-amalgamation as a matrix operation, to be applied to a vector representation of the partitioned genus distribution of a symmetric ladder. Analysis of the resulting genus polynomial involves the use of Chebyshev polynomials. This paper continues our quest to affirm the quarter-century-old conjecture that all graphs have log-concave genus polynomials.
Co-Authors Jonathan L Gross Thomas W. Tucker Toufik Mansour