Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 332, No. 2 (Aug., 1992), pp. 729-756 (28 pages) In this paper we present several results and open problems about log-concavity properties of ...
Abstract. Let 𝐼(𝐺;𝑥) denote the independence polynomial of a graph 𝐺. In this paper we study the unimodality properties of 𝐼(𝐺;𝑥) for some composite graphs 𝐺. Given two graphs 𝐺₁ and 𝐺₂, let ...