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Chromatic Sums for Rooted Planar Triangulations II: The Case λ = τ + 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

W. T. Tutte
W. T. Tutte*
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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In an earlier paper [2] we denned the chromatic sums g, q, l and h. We determined the derivatives of these sums with respect to the colour-number λ at the special values λ = 1 and λ = 2. In the present paper we find parametric equations for h, l and q in the case λ = τ + 1, where τ is the golden ratio. We obtain h, l and the basic indeterminate z explicitly in terms of the parameter u, but for q we exhibit only a cubic equation with coefficients depending on u. We obtain an exact formula for the coefficients in h by applying Lagrange's theorem to the parametric equations.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , June 1973 , pp. 657 - 671
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

References

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