%0 Journal Article %T Connections between the matching and chromatic polynomials %A E. J. Farrell %A Earl Glen Whitehead %J International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences %D 1992 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/s016117129200098x %X The main results established are (i) a connection between the matching and chromatic polynomials and (ii) a formula for the matching polynomial of a general complement of a subgraph of a graph. Some deductions on matching and chromatic equivalence and uniqueness are made. %K matching polynomial %K chromatic polynomial %K matching equivalence %K chromatic equivalence %K triangle-free graphs. %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S016117129200098X