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The surface Tutte polynomial has recently been generalised to pseudo-surfaces equipping it with recursive deletion-contraction relations. We use these relations to show that this generalisation naturally possesses a quasi-tree expansion.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Maya Thompson

We introduce the notions of arithmetic colorings and arithmetic flows over a graph with labelled edges, which generalize the notions of colorings and flows over a graph. We show that the corresponding arithmetic chromatic polynomial and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Michele D'Adderio , Luca Moci

The Tutte polynomial of a graph is a two-variable polynomial whose zeros and evaluations encode many interesting properties of the graph. In this article we investigate the zeros of the Tutte polynomials of graphs, and show that they form a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Seongmin Ok , Thomas J. Perrett

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 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 introduce and investigate multivariate Tutte polynomials, dichromatic polynomials, subset-corank polynomials, size-corank polynomials, and rank generating polynomials of semimatroids, which generalize the corresponding polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Houshan Fu

The Tutte polynomial is originally a bivariate polynomial which enumerates the colorings of a graph and of its dual graph. Ardila extended in 2007 the definition of the Tutte polynomial on the real hyperplane arrangements. He particularly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Hery Randriamaro

The Tutte polynomial of a graph, or equivalently the $q$-state Potts model partition function, is a two-variable polynomial graph invariant of considerable importance in both combinatorics and statistical physics. The computation of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Hanlin Chen , Yuanhua Liao , Hanyuan Deng

A common generalization for the chromatic polynomial and the flow polynomial of a graph $G$ is the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$. The combinatorial meaning for the coefficients of $T$ was discovered by Tutte at the beginning of its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-16 Beifang Chen

Firstly, for a general graph, we find a recursion formula on the number of Hamiltonian cycles and one on cycles. By this result, we give some new polynomial invariants. Secondly, we give a condition to tell whether a polynomial defined by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Yi Bo

We find new properties of the topological transition polynomial of embedded graphs, $Q(G)$. We use these properties to explain the striking similarities between certain evaluations of Bollob\'as and Riordan's ribbon graph polynomial,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan , Iain Moffatt

We recover the Tutte polynomial of a matroid, up to change of coordinates, from an Ehrhart-style polynomial counting lattice points in the Minkowski sum of its base polytope and scalings of simplices. Our polynomial has coefficients of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Amanda Cameron , Alex Fink

By considering Tutte polynomials of Hopf algebras, we show how a Tutte polynomial can be canonically associated with combinatorial objects that have some notions of deletion and contraction. We show that several graph polynomials from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Thomas Krajewski , Iain Moffatt , Adrian Tanasa

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 study finite graphs embedded in oriented surfaces by associating a polynomial to it. The tools used in developing a theory of such graph polynomials are algebraic topological while the polynomial itself is inspired from ideas arising in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Somnath Basu , Dhruv Bhasin , Siddhartha Lal , Siddhartha Patra

The Las Vergnas polynomial is an extension of the Tutte polynomial to cellularly embedded graphs. It was introduced by Michel Las Vergnas in 1978 as special case of his Tutte polynomial of a morphism of matroids. While the general Tutte…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan , Iain Moffatt

It is well known that the 2-variable Tutte polynomials contain chromatic polynomial and flow polynomial of graphs, i.e. the cases of $y=0$ and $x=0$. In 2013, K\'{a}lm\'{a}n introduced the interior and exterior polynomials which generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Tianlong Ma , Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin

In this paper, we introduce the concept of the weighted (harmonic) chromatic polynomials of graphs and discuss some of its properties. We also present the notion of the weighted (harmonic) Tutte--Grothendieck polynomials of graphs and give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Himadri Shekhar Chakraborty , Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Chong Zheng

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

In this note we provide a higher-dimensional analogue of Tutte's celebrated theorem on colorings and flows of graphs, by showing that the theory of arithmetic Tutte polynomials and quasi-polynomials encompasses invariants defined for CW…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Emanuele Delucchi , Luca Moci