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We provide a full classification of all families of matroids that are closed under duality and minors, and for which the Tutte polynomial is a universal valuative invariant. There are four inclusion-wise maximal families, two of which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Luis Ferroni , Benjamin Schröter

We introduce the notion of a categorical valuative invariant of polyhedra or matroids, in which alternating sums of numerical invariants are replaced by split exact sequences in an additive category. We provide categorical lifts of a number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Ben Elias , Dane Miyata , Nicholas Proudfoot , Lorenzo Vecchi

We study an operation in matroid theory that allows one to transition a given matroid into another with more bases via relaxing a \emph{stressed subset}. This framework provides a new combinatorial characterization of the class of split…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Luis Ferroni , Benjamin Schröter

Motivated by the $Z$-polynomials of matroids, Ferroni, Matherne, Stevens, and Vecchi introduced the inverse $Z$-polynomial of a matroid. In this paper, we prove several fundamental properties of the inverse $Z$-polynomial, including…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Alice L. L. Gao , Xuan Ruan , Matthew H. Y. Xie

In this paper, we introduce the concept of the Tutte polynomials of genus $g$ and discuss some of its properties. We note that the Tutte polynomials of genus one are well-known Tutte polynomials. The Tutte polynomials are matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Manabu Oura , Tadashi Sakuma , Hidehiro Shinohara

The catenary data of a matroid $M$ of rank $r$ on $n$ elements is the vector $(\nu(M;a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_r))$, indexed by compositions $(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_r)$, where $a_0 \geq 0$,\, $a_i > 0$ for $i \geq 1$, and $a_0+ a_1 + \cdots + a_r = n$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Joseph E. Bonin , Joseph P. S. Kung

The Tutte polynomial and Derksen's $\mathcal{G}$-invariant are the universal deletion-contraction and valuative matroid and polymatroid invariants, respectively. There are only a handful of well known invariants (like the matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Max Wakefield

We characterize a rich class of valuated matroids, called R-minor valuated matroids that includes the indicator functions of matroids, and is closed under operations such as taking minors, duality, and induction by network. We exhibit a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Edin Husić , Georg Loho , Ben Smith , László A. Végh

In the paper [Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Ser. A Mathematical Sciences, 95(10) 111-113], the authors introduce the concept of the Tutte polynomials of genus $g$ and announce that each matroid $M$ can be reconstructed from its Tutte…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Manabu Oura , Tadashi Sakuma , Hidehiro Shinohara

The Tutte polynomial is the most general invariant of matroids and graphs that can be computed recursively by deleting and contracting edges. We generalize this invariant to any class of combinatorial objects with deletion and contraction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Clément Dupont , Alex Fink , Luca Moci

The Tutte polynomial is a well-studied invariant of matroids. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial $\mathcal{J}_{P}(x,y)$, introduced by Bernardi et al., is an extension of the classical Tutte polynomial from matroids to polymatroids $P$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Xiaxia Guan , Weiling Yang , Xian'an Jin

From the configuration of a matroid (which records the size and rank of the cyclic flats and the containments among them, but not the sets), one can compute several much-studied matroid invariants, including the Tutte polynomial and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin

The Tutte polynomial is a fundamental invariant of graphs and matroids. In this article, we define a generalization of the Tutte polynomial to oriented graphs and regular oriented matroids. To any regular oriented matroid $N$, we associate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Jordan Awan , Olivier Bernardi

The Tutte polynomial is a significant invariant of graphs and matroids. It is well-known that it has three equivalent definitions: bases expansion, rank generating function, and deletion-contraction formula. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin , Weiling Yang

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

The multivariate Tutte polynomial $\hat Z_M$ of a matroid $M$ is a generalization of the standard two-variable version, obtained by assigning a separate variable $v_e$ to each element $e$ of the ground set $E$. It encodes the full structure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Adam Bohn , Peter J. Cameron , Peter Müller

It is possible to write the indicator function of any matroid polytope as an integer combination of indicator functions of Schubert matroid polytopes. In this way, every matroid on $n$ elements of rank $r$ can be thought of as a lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Luis Ferroni , Alex Fink

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

We decompose the indicator function of each $(a, b)$-Catalan matroid polytope as a weighted sum of indicator function of matroid polytopes that correspond to direct sums of uniform matroids. Catalan matroids lie in the interior of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yiming Chen , Yao Li , Ming Yao

We use the equivariant cohomology ring of the permutohedral variety to study matroids and their invariants. Investigating the pushforward of matroid Chern classes defined by A. Berget, C. Eur, H. Spink and D. Tseng to the product space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Mario Bauer , Matěj Doležálek , Magdaléna Mišinová , Semen Słobodianiuk , Julian Weigert
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