\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,mathrsfs,bbm} \usepackage{amssymb} \textwidth=4.825in \overfullrule=0pt \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \noindent % % {\bf F.M. Dong, Gordon Royle and Dave Wagner} % % \medskip \noindent % % {\bf Chromatic Roots of a Ring of Four Cliques} % % \vskip 5mm \noindent % % % % For any positive integers $a,b,c,d$, let $R_{a,b,c,d}$ be the graph obtained from the complete graphs $K_a, K_b, K_c$ and $K_d$ by adding edges joining every vertex in $K_a$ and $K_c$ to every vertex in $K_b$ and $K_d$. This paper shows that for arbitrary positive integers $a,b,c$ and $d$, every root of the chromatic polynomial of $R_{a,b,c,d}$ is either a real number or a non-real number with its real part equal to $(a+b+c+d-1)/2$. \end{document} .