Solution

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The chromatic number is the smallest positive integer for which . Thus equality of the polynomials implies , as well as and . In particular contains no , since such a clique requires colors. The equality case in Turán's theorem now gives . This uses more than equality of triangle counts: the polynomial also determines colorability.

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