Proof of a conjecture of Graham and Lov\'asz concerning unimodality of coefficients of the distance characteristic polynomial of a tree

Abstract

We establish a conjecture of Graham and Lov\'asz that the (normalized) coefficients of the distance characteristic polynomial of a tree are unimodal; we also prove they are log-concave.

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