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title: "Generating Polynomials, Part 2: Ghostly Chains"
description: |
"Do polygons without distance still know about planar geometry?"
"What do polygons without distance still know about planar geometry?"
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date: "2021-08-19"
date-modified: "2025-06-20"
date-modified: "2025-06-24"
categories:
- geometry
- algebra
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The various $P_n$ are in fact the adjacency matrices of a path on *n* nodes.
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Example path graphs of orders 2, 3, and 4
](./path_graphs.png)
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Paths are degenerate trees, but we can make them slightly more interesting by instead adding
exactly one node and edge to (the middle of) a path.
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Nondegenerate tree graphs based on 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-paths
](./tree_graphs.png)
$$
\begin{align*}
T_{1,1} := \begin{matrix}[
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Searching the OEIS for the coefficients of $t_{2,4}$ returns sequence
[A228786](http://oeis.org/A228786), which informs that it is the minimal polynomial
of $2\sin( \pi/15 )$.
This sequence also informs that the other factor is the minimal polynomial of $2\sin( \pi / 9 )$:
This sequence also informs that the unknown factor in the other polynomial is
the minimal polynomial of $2\sin( \pi / 9 )$:
In fact, both of these polynomials show up in the factorization
of Chebyshev polynomials of the *first* kind.
Perhaps this is not surprising, given how $2\cos(\pi / n)$ also appear in the spectra of graphs.
However, it is immensely interesting to see them pop out from the addition of a single node.
In fact, both of these polynomials show up in factorizations of Chebyshev polynomials
of the *first* kind (specifically, $2T_15(z / 2)$ and $2T_9(z / 2)$).
Perhaps this is not surprising since we were already working with those of the second kind.
However, it is interesting to see them appear from the addition of a single node.
Closing
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In fact, I was initially prompted to look into them due to a remarkable correspondence between
certain trees and Platonic solids.
I have reorganized these thoughts, since from the perspective of this article, the relationship
I have since reorganized these thoughts, as from the perspective of this article, the relationship
is tangential at best.

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