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We prove some variants of the exponential formula and apply them to the multivariate Tutte polynomials (also known as Potts-model partition functions) of graphs. We also prove some further identities for the multivariate Tutte polynomial,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-16 Alexander D. Scott , Alan D. Sokal

The block-cut tree decomposes a connected graph along its cutvertices, displaying its 2-connected components. The Tutte-decomposition extends this idea to 2-separators in 2-connected graphs, yielding a canonical tree-decomposition that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Romain Bourneuf , Tim Planken

The multivariate Tutte polynomial (known to physicists as the Potts-model partition function) can be defined on an arbitrary finite graph G, or more generally on an arbitrary matroid M, and encodes much important combinatorial information…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Alan D. Sokal

We combinatorially prove a new recurrence between the Tutte polynomials of graphs obtained by contraction of the complete graphs $K_{n}$%. This generalizes, to two variables, a relation previously obtained by the author between the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Vincent Brugidou

The Tutte polynomial is a fundamental invariant associated to a graph, matroid, vector arrangement, or hyperplane arrangement. This short survey focuses on some of the most important results on Tutte polynomials of hyperplane arrangements.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Federico Ardila

We prove several theorems concerning Tutte polynomials $T(G,x,y)$ for recursive families of graphs. In addition to its interest in mathematics, the Tutte polynomial is equivalent to an important function in statistical physics, the Potts…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

We explore the interplay between algebraic combinatorics and algorithmic problems in graph theory by defining a polynomial with connections to correspondence colouring (also known as DP-colouring), a recent generalization of list-colouring,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Chris Godsil , Krystal Guo , Gordon Royle

The Tutte polynomial is a classical invariant, important in combinatorics and statistical mechanics. An essential feature of the Tutte polynomial is the duality for planar graphs G, $T_G(X,Y)\; =\; {T}_{G^*}(Y,X)$ where $G^*$ denotes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Vyacheslav Krushkal , David Renardy

We give an analogue of the Tutte polynomial for hypermaps. This polynomial can be defined as either a sum over subhypermaps, or recursively through deletion-contraction reductions where the terminal forms consist of isolated vertices. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan , Iain Moffatt , Steven Noble

In this paper, we find recursive formulas for the Tutte polynomial of a family of small-world networks: Farey graphs, which are modular and have an exponential degree hierarchy. Then, making use of these formulas, we determine the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Yunhua Liao , Yaoping Hou , Xiaoling Shen

We follow the example of Tutte in his construction of the dichromate of a graph (that is, the Tutte polynomial) as a unification of the chromatic polynomial and the flow polynomial in order to construct a new polynomial invariant of maps…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Andrew Goodall , Thomas Krajewski , Guus Regts , Lluis Vena

The Tutte polynomial is a well-studied invariant of graphs and matroids. We first extend the Tutte polynomial from graphs to hypergraphs, and more generally from matroids to polymatroids, as a two-variable polynomial. Our definition is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Olivier Bernardi , Tamas Kalman , Alex Postnikov

This paper has two main parts. First, we consider the Tutte symmetric function $XB$, a generalization of the chromatic symmetric function. We introduce a vertex-weighted version of $XB$ and show that this function admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-04 José Aliste-Prieto , Logan Crew , Sophie Spirkl , José Zamora

We introduce the concept of a relative Tutte polynomial of colored graphs. We show that this relative Tutte polynomial can be computed in a way similar to the classical spanning tree expansion used by Tutte in his original paper on this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Yuanan Diao , Gabor Hetyei

This paper deals with the partition function of the Ising model from statistical mechanics, which is used to study phase transitions in physical systems. A special case of interest is that of the Ising model with constant energies and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Tomer Kotek

We give a fine-grained classification of evaluating the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$ on all integer points on graphs with small treewidth and cutwidth. Specifically, we show for any point $(x,y) \in \mathbb{Z}^2$ that either - can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Isja Mannens , Jesper Nederlof

Tutte's dichromate T(x,y) is a well known graph invariant. Using the original definition in terms of internal and external activities as our point of departure, we generalize the valuations T(x,1) and T(1,y) to hypergraphs. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Tamás Kálmán

Recent work has shown that not only decision trees (DTs) may not be interpretable but also proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for computing one PI-explanation of a DT. This paper shows that for a wide range of classifiers, globally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xuanxiang Huang , Yacine Izza , Alexey Ignatiev , Joao Marques-Silva

The Tutte polynomial is an important invariant of graphs and matroids. Chen and Guo \emph{[Adv. in Appl. Math. 166 (2025) 102868.]} proved that for a $(k+1)$-edge connected graph $G$ and for any $i$ with $0\leq i <\frac{3(k+1)}{2}$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin , Tianlong Ma , Weihua Yang

We introduce an arithmetic version of the multivariate Tutte polynomial, and (for representable arithmetic matroids) a quasi-polynomial that interpolates between the two. A generalized Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation with applications to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Petter Brändén , Luca Moci