Beschreibung:
This graduate level text is distinguished both by the range of topics and the novelty of the material it treats--more than half of the material in it has previously only appeared in research papers
Preface, Contents, 1. The Matchings Polynomial, 2. The Characteristic Polynomial, 3. Formal Power Series and Generating Functions, 4. Walk Generating Functions, 5. Quotients of Graphs, 6. Matchings and Walks, 7. Pfaffians, 8. Orthogonal Polynomials, 9. Moment Sequences, 10. Strongly Regular Graphs, 11. Distance-Regular Graphs, 12. Association Schemes, 13. Representations of Distance-Regular Graphs, 14. Polynomial Spaces, 15. Q- Polynomial Spaces, 16. Tight Designs, Appendix: Terminology, Index of Symbols, Index