Bollobás–Pebody–Riordan conjecture on almost-complete chromatic polynomials

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Let G(n,p(n))\mathbb{G}(n,p(n)) be the random graph model in which graphs of order nn are sampled with edge probability p(n)p(n). A graph polynomial is almost complete when asymptotically almost all graphs in the specified model are uniquely determined by that polynomial.

Bollobás–Pebody–Riordan conjecture. For the model with p(n)=1/2p(n)=1/2, the chromatic polynomial is almost complete.

The source attributes this conjecture to Bollobás, Pebody and Riordan and states that, although it was proposed about 25 years earlier, it now seems unlikely; no resolution is given in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Johann A. Makowsky, “Distinctive power and comparability of Harary polynomial”, arXiv:2512.22556 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2411.15088, arXiv:2405.02617, arXiv:1910.06037.

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