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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

In this study, we present two results that relate Tutte polynomials. First, we provide new and complete polynomial invariants for graphs. We note that the number of variables of our polynomials is one. Second, let L_1 and L_2 be two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Misaki Kume , Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Tadashi Sakuma , Hidehiro Shinohara

Building on the limit theory for set functions, we prove that the limit of convergent sequence of bounded-degree graphs' cycle matroids can be represented as the cycle matroid of a graphing, analogous to the completeness result for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yaobin Chen , Zhicheng Liu , Yihang Xiao , Junchi Zhang

This paper studies the properties of two kinds of matroids: (a) algebraic matroids and (b) finite and infinite matroids whose ground set have some canonical symmetry, for example row and column symmetry and transposition symmetry. For (a)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-16 Franz J. Király , Zvi Rosen , Louis Theran

We introduce the minor-closed, dual-closed class of multi-path matroids. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the Tutte polynomial of a multi-path matroid, we describe their basis activities, and we prove some basic structural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin , Omer Gimenez

The classical Whitney's 2-Isomorphism Theorem describes the families of graphs having the same cycle matroid. In this paper we describe the families of graphs having the same truncated cycle matroid and prove, in particular, that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Jose De Jesus , Alexander Kelmans

We show that any graph polynomial from a wide class of graph polynomials yields a recurrence relation on an infinite class of families of graphs. The recurrence relations we obtain have coefficients which themselves satisfy linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Tomer Kotek , Johann A. Makowsky

We show that the infinite matroid intersection conjecture of Nash-Williams implies the infinite Menger theorem proved recently by Aharoni and Berger. We prove that this conjecture is true whenever one matroid is nearly finitary and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-10 Elad Aigner-Horev , Johannes Carmesin , Jan-Oliver Fröhlich

The configuration of a matroid $M$ is the abstract lattice of cyclic flats (flats that are unions of circuits) where we record the size and rank of each cyclic flat, but not the set. One can compute the Tutte polynomial of $M$, and stronger…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Joseph E. Bonin , Anna de Mier

A cycle $C$ in a graph $G$ is called a Tutte cycle if, after deleting $C$ from $G$, each component has at most three neighbors on $C$. Tutte cycles play an important role in the study of Hamiltonicity of planar graphs. Thomas and Yu and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Michael C. Wigal , Xingxing Yu

We extend Robertson and Seymour's tangle-tree duality theorem to infinite graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Sandra Albrechtsen

We offer a new structural basis for the theory of 3-connected graphs, providing a unique decomposition of every such graph into parts that are either quasi 4-connected, wheels, or thickened $K_{3,m}$'s. Our construction is explicit,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Johannes Carmesin , Jan Kurkofka

In mathematics and computer science, connectivity is one of the basic concepts of matroid theory: it asks for the minimum number of elements which need to be removed to disconnect the remaining nodes from each other. It is closely related…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-06 Bin Yang , William Zhu

Graph theoretical ideas are highly utilized by computer science fields especially data mining. In this field, a data structure can be designed in the form of tree. Covering is a widely used form of data representation in data mining and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Aiping Huang , William Zhu

Vassiliev (finite type) invariants of knots can be described in terms of weight systems. These are functions on chord diagrams satisfying so-called 4-term relations. In the study of the sl2 weight system, it was shown that its value on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Sergey Lando , Vyacheslav Zhukov

In 1999 Merino and Welsh conjectured that evaluations of the Tutte polynomial of a graph satisfy an inequality. In this short article we show that the conjecture generalized to matroids holds for the large class of all split matroids by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Luis Ferroni , Benjamin Schröter

We give a short proof that every finite graph (or matroid) has a tree-decomposition that displays all maximal tangles. This theorem for graphs is a central result of the graph minors project of Robertson and Seymour and the extension to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Johannes Carmesin

In this series we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects like undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs or finitary matroids. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Nathan Bowler , Florian Reich

Given a graph or a matroid, a tree of tangles is a tree decomposition that displays the structure of the connectivity: every edge of the decomposition tree induces a separation, that is, a way to divide the graph or matroid into two parts;…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Ann-Kathrin Elm

In his article [J. Comb. Theory Ser. B 16 (1974), 168-174], Tutte called two graphs $T$-equivalent (i.e., codichromatic) if they have the same Tutte polynomial and showed that graphs $G$ and $G'$ are $T$-equivalent if $G'$ is obtained from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Fengming Dong , Meiqiao Zhang