Extremal properties of the chromatic polynomials of connected
3-chromatic graphs
Ioan Tomescu
Abstract
In this paper the greatest $\lceil n/2\rceil$ values of
$P(G;3)$ in the class of connected 3-chromatic graphs $G$ of order $n$ are
found, where $P(G;\lambda)$ denotes the chromatic polynomial of~$G$.
Keywords: Chromatic polynomial, connected
3-chromatic graph, 3-color partition, skeleton of a graph.