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One of the most important classes of even $\Delta$-matroids arises from orientable ribbon graphs, which play a role analogous to that of graphic matroids in matroid theory. Motivated by a natural correspondence between strong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Changxin Ding , Donggyu Kim

We show that all the tangles in a finite graph or matroid can be distinguished by a single tree-decomposition that is invariant under the automorphisms of the graph or matroid. This comes as a corollary of a similar decomposition theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Reinhard Diestel , Fabian Hundertmark , Sahar Lemanczyk

Identifiability is a crucial property for a statistical model since distributions in the model uniquely determine the parameters that produce them. In phylogenetics, the identifiability of the tree parameter is of particular interest since…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Benjamin Hollering , Seth Sullivant

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

We introduce a new matroid (graph) invariant, the arboricity polynomial. Given a matroid, the arboricity polynomial enumerates the number of covers of the ground set by disjoint independent sets. We establish the polynomiality of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Felix Breuer , Caroline J Klivans

The weak variant of Hanani-Tutte theorem says that a graph is planar, if it can be drawn in the plane so that every pair of edges cross an even number of times. Moreover, we can turn such a drawing into an embedding without changing the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Radoslav Fulek

We give a common matroidal generalisation of `A Cantor-Bernstein theorem for paths in graphs' by Diestel and Thomassen and `A Cantor-Bernstein-type theorem for spanning trees in infinite graphs' by ourselves.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Attila Joó

We survey some of the stratification theorems concerning exponential sums over finite fields, especially those due to Katz-Laumon and Fouvry-Katz, as well as some of their applications. Moreover, motivated partly by recent work of Bonolis,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Dante Bonolis , Emmanuel Kowalski , Katharine Woo

The paper describes an explicit combinatorial formula for a harmonic vector for the Laplacian of a directed graph with arbitrary edge weights. This result was motivated by questions from mathematical economics, and the formula plays a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Siddhartha Sahi

We give a short elementary proof of Tutte and Nash-Williams' characterization of graphs with k edge-disjoint spanning trees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Tomáš Kaiser

Brylawski proved the coefficients of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid satisfy a set of linear relations. We extend these relations to a generalization of the Tutte polynomial that includes greedoids and antimatroids. This leads to families…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Gary Gordon

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

If a graph has a non-singular adjacency matrix, then one may use the inverse matrix to define a (labeled) graph that may be considered to be the inverse graph to the original one. It has been known that an adjacency matrix of a tree is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Soňa Pavlíková , Jozef Širáň

We generalize the definition and enumeration of spanning trees from the setting of graphs to that of arbitrary-dimensional simplicial complexes $\Delta$, extending an idea due to G. Kalai. We prove a simplicial version of the Matrix-Tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Art M. Duval , Caroline J. Klivans , Jeremy L. Martin

The Tutte polynomial of a graph or a matroid, named after W. T. Tutte, has the important universal property that essentially any multiplicative graph or network invariant with a deletion and contraction reduction must be an evaluation of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Criel Merino , Marcelino Ramírez-Ibáñez , Guadalupe Rodríguez Sanchez

The Hanani--Tutte theorem is a classical result proved for the first time in the 1930s that characterizes planar graphs as graphs that admit a drawing in the plane in which every pair of edges not sharing a vertex cross an even number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Radoslav Fulek , Jan Kynčl , Igor Malinović , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

It is well known that the coefficients of the matching polynomial are unimodal. Unimodality of the coefficients (or their absolute values) of other graph polynomials have been studied as well. One way to prove unimodality is to prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Johann A. Makowsky , Vsevolod Rakita

We prove that a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$ defined by finitely many excluded induced subgraphs has bounded tree-$\alpha$ if and only if it is "$(\mathrm{tw},\omega)$-bounded" (that is, for all $t\in \mathbb N$, the class of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

Given a graph G, an incidence matrix N(G) is defined for the set of distinct isomorphism types of induced subgraphs of G. If Ulam's conjecture is true, then every graph invariant must be reconstructible from this matrix, even when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhalchandra D. Thatte

The canonical tree-decomposition theorem, given by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal graph minors series, turns out to be one of the most important tool in structural and algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we provide the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer , O-joung Kwon