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Kragujevac J. Math. 22 (2000) 49-56.

ELEMENTARY PROOF OF THE REALITY OF THE ZEROS OF b-POLYNOMIALS OF COMPLETE GRAPHS

Xueliang Lia and Ivan Gutmanb

aDepartment of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University,
X'ian, Shaanxi 710072, P. R. China, and
bFaculty of Science, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Yugoslavia

(Received January 3, 2000)

ABSTRACT. An elementary proof is given for the reality of all zeros of b-polynomials associated with complete graphs.