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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

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

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

The multivariate arithmetic Tutte polynomial of arithmetic matroids is a generalization of the multivariate Tutte polynomial of matroids. In this note, we give the convolution formulas for the multivariate arithmetic Tutte polynomial of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Tianlong Ma , Xian'an Jin , Weiling Yang

We give a quantum-inspired $O(n^4)$ algorithm computing the Tutte polynomial of a lattice path matroid, where $n$ is the size of the ground set of the matroid. Furthermore, this can be improved to $O(n^2)$ arithmetic operations if we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Jason Morton , Jacob Turner

We show that computing the Tutte polynomial of a linear matroid of dimension $k$ on $k^{O(1)}$ points over a field of $k^{O(1)}$ elements requires $k^{\Omega(k)}$ time unless the \#ETH---a counting extension of the Exponential Time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Andreas Björklund , Petteri Kaski

The weighted transition polynomial of a multimatroid is a generalization of the Tutte polynomial. By defining the activity of a skew class with respect to a basis in a multimatroid, we obtain an activities expansion for the weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Criel Merino , Iain Moffatt , Steven Noble

We introduce the notion of a matroid M over a commutative ring R, assigning to every subset of the ground set an R-module according to some axioms. When R is a field, we recover matroids. When R=$\mathbb{Z}$, and when R is a DVR, we get…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Alex Fink , Luca Moci

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

In this note we generalize the convolution formula for the Tutte polynomial of Kook-Reiner-Stanton and Etienne-Las Vergnas to a more general setting that includes both arithmetic matroids and delta-matroids. As corollaries, we obtain new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Spencer Backman , Matthias Lenz

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

We prove that the Tutte polynomial of a coloopless paving matroid is convex along the portions of the line segments x+y=p lying in the positive quadrant. Every coloopless paving matroids is in the class of matroids which contain two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-16 L. E. Chavez-Lomelí , C. Merino , S. D. Noble , M. Ramírez-Ibañez

We introduce the notion of an arithmetic matroid, whose main example is given by a list of elements of a finitely generated abelian group. In particular we study the representability of its dual, providing an extension of the Gale duality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Michele D'Adderio , 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

Multimatroids generalize matroids, delta-matroids, and isotropic systems, and transition polynomials of multimatroids subsume various polynomials for these latter combinatorial structures, such as the interlace polynomial and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Robert Brijder

The Tutte polynomial is a crucial invariant of matroids. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial $\mathscr{T}_{P}(x,y)$, introduced by Bernardi et al., is an extension of the classical Tutte polynomial from matroids to polymatroids $P$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin , Tamás Kálmán

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

We establish that matroids characterized by the Tutte polynomial $\sum_{i,j\ge 0}t_{i,j}x^iy^j$ with coefficients $t_{i,j}$ vanishing for $(i,j)\ge (k,l)$ precisely coincide with $(k,l)$-uniform matroids. This characterization implies that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Hyungju Park

Using a quantum field theory renormalization group-like differential equation, we give a new proof of the recipe theorem for the Tutte polynomial for matroids. The solution of such an equation is in fact given by some appropriate characters…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Gérard H. E. Duchamp , Nguyen Hoang-Nghia , Thomas Krajewski , Adrian Tanasa

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