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We follow the example of Tutte in his construction of the dichromate of a graph (that is, the Tutte polynomial) as a unification of the chromatic polynomial and the flow polynomial in order to construct a new polynomial invariant of maps…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Andrew Goodall , Thomas Krajewski , Guus Regts , Lluis Vena

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

The Tutte polynomial for matroids is not directly applicable to polymatroids. For instance, deletion-contraction properties do not hold. We construct a polynomial for polymatroids which behaves similarly to the Tutte polynomial of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Amanda Cameron , Alex Fink

Originally in 1954 the Tutte polynomial was a bivariate polynomial associated to a graph in order to enumerate the colorings of this graph and of its dual graph at the same time. However the Tutte polynomial reveals more of the internal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Hery Randriamaro

We generalize the Tutte polynomial of a matroid to a morphism of matroids via the K-theory of flag varieties. We introduce two different generalizations, and demonstrate that each has its own merits, where the trade-off is between the ease…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Rodica Dinu , Christopher Eur , Tim Seynnaeve

We introduce the active partition of the ground set of an oriented matroid perspective (or quotient, or strong map) on a linearly ordered ground set. The reorientations obtained by arbitrarily reorienting parts of the active partition share…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Emeric Gioan

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

We give a convolution formula for the Tutte polynomial T_M (x,y) of a matroid M.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Kook , V. Reiner , Dennis Stanton

We give an analogue of the Tutte polynomial for hypermaps. This polynomial can be defined as either a sum over subhypermaps, or recursively through deletion-contraction reductions where the terminal forms consist of isolated vertices. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan , Iain Moffatt , Steven Noble

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

We show how the Tutte polynomial of a matroid $M$ can be computed from its condensed configuration, which is a statistic of its lattice of cyclic flats. The results imply that the Tutte polynomial of $M$ is already determined by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Jens Niklas Eberhardt

We introduce and study the notion of the $G$-Tutte polynomial for a list $\mathcal{A}$ of elements in a finitely generated abelian group $\Gamma$ and an abelian group $G$, which is defined by counting the number of homomorphisms from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Ye Liu , Tan Nhat Tran , Masahiko Yoshinaga

In a recent paper, we studied the interaction between the automorphism group of a graph and its Tutte polynomial. More precisely, we proved that certain symmetries of graphs are clearly reflected by their Tutte polynomials. The purpose of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Chbili Nafaa

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 multiplicity Tutte polynomial, which includes the arithmetic Tutte polynomial, is a generalization of the classical Tutte polynomial of matroids. In this paper, we obtain an expression of the general coefficient and the expressions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Xian'an Jin , Tianlong Ma , Weiling Yang

Let $T(G;X,Y)$ be the Tutte polynomial for graphs. We study the sequence $t_{a,b}(n) = T(K_n;a,b)$ where $a,b$ are non-negative integers, and show that for every $\mu \in \N$ the sequence $t_{a,b}(n)$ is ultimately periodic modulo $\mu$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Tomer Kotek , Johann A. Makowsky

We begin with a review of Tutte's homotopy theory, which concerns the structure of certain graph associated to a matroid (together with some extra data). Concretely, Tutte's path theorem asserts that this graph is connected, and his…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Matthew Baker , Tong Jin , Oliver Lorscheid

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

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

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