TY - JOUR AV - public Y1 - 2004/03// SP - 221 ID - discovery9064 PB - CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS N2 - I show that the zeros of the chromatic polynomials P-G(q) for the generalized theta graphs Theta((s.p)) are taken together, dense in the whole complex plane with the possible exception of the disc \q - l\ < l. The same holds for their dichromatic polynomials (alias Tutte polynomials, alias Potts-model partition functions) Z(G)(q,upsilon) outside the disc \q + upsilon\ < \upsilon\. An immediate corollary is that the chromatic roots of not-necessarily-planar graphs are dense in the whole complex plane. The main technical tool in the proof of these results is the Beraha-Kahane-Weiss theorem oil the limit sets of zeros for certain sequences of analytic functions, for which I give a new and simpler proof. KW - GROUND-STATE ENTROPY KW - MODEL PARTITION-FUNCTIONS KW - ANTIFERROMAGNETIC POTTS MODELS KW - PERIODIC BOUNDARY-CONDITIONS KW - HYPERBOLIC COXETER GROUPS KW - NONCOMPACT W BOUNDARIES KW - RANDOM-CLUSTER MEASURES KW - CYCLIC STRIP GRAPHS KW - SQUARE-LATTICE KW - TRIANGULAR-LATTICE UR - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9064/ JF - COMB PROBAB COMPUT SN - 0963-5483 TI - Chromatic roots are dense in the whole complex plane A1 - Sokal, AD EP - 261 IS - 2 VL - 13 ER -