@misc{ Dohmen:2014:CFU, author = {Klaus Dohmen}, title = {Closed-form Expansions for the Universal Edge Elimination Polynomial}, pubstate = {Submitted for publication}, year = {2014}, month = {March}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {1403.0969}, eprintclass = {math-CO}, abstract = {We establish closed-form expansions for the universal edge elimination polynomial of paths and cycles and their generating functions. This includes closed-form expansions for the covered components polynomial, the bivariate chromatic polynomial, and the bivariate matching polynomial}, keywords = {graph polynomial, chromatic polynomial, matching polynomial, covered components polynomial, edge elimination, generating function, path, cycle, closed-form} }