A Broken-Circuits-Theorem for Hypergraphs. Dohmen, K. Arch. Math., 64(2):159--162, 1995. doi abstract bibtex We define the chromatic polynomial of a hypergraph and establish a generalisation of Whitney's broken-circuits-theorem.
@article{ Dohmen:1995:BCT,
author = {Klaus Dohmen},
title = {A Broken-Circuits-Theorem for Hypergraphs},
journal = {Arch. Math.},
year = {1995},
volume = {64},
number = {2},
pages = {159--162},
doi = {10.1007/BF01196637},
abstract = {We define the chromatic polynomial of a hypergraph and
establish a generalisation of Whitney's
broken-circuits-theorem.},
keywords = {graph, hypergraph, chromatic polynomial, broken circuit}
}