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A catalogue of all non-isomorphic simple connected regular matroids ${\cal M}$ of cardinality $n \leq 15$ is provided on the net. These matroids are given as binary matrix matroids and are sieved from the large pool of all non-isomorphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Harald Fripertinger , Marcel Wild

We consider a specialization $Y_M(q,t)$ of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid $M$ which is inspired by analogy with the Potts model from statistical mechanics. The only information lost in this specialization is the number of loops of $M$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 David G. Wagner

We use the equivariant cohomology ring of the permutohedral variety to study matroids and their invariants. Investigating the pushforward of matroid Chern classes defined by A. Berget, C. Eur, H. Spink and D. Tseng to the product space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Mario Bauer , Matěj Doležálek , Magdaléna Mišinová , Semen Słobodianiuk , Julian Weigert

In this thesis, we study nearly finitary matroids by introducing new definitions and prove various properties of nearly finitary matroids. In 2010, an axiom system for infinite matroids was proposed by Bruhn et al. We use this axiom system…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Patrick Tam

Thin sums matroids were introduced to extend the notion of representability to non-finitary matroids. We give a new criterion for testing when the thin sums construction gives a matroid. We show that thin sums matroids over thin families…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Hadi Afzali , Nathan Bowler

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

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

The class of 2-regular matroids is a natural generalisation of regular and near-regular matroids. We prove an excluded-minor characterisation for the class of 2-regular matroids. The class of 3-regular matroids coincides with the class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Nick Brettell , James Oxley , Charles Semple , Geoff Whittle

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

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

We consider the problem of determining whether the union of two infinite matroids is a matroid. We introduce a superclass of the finitary matroids, the nearly finitary matroids, and prove that the union of two nearly finitary matroids is a…

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

The present note is a strengthening of a recent paper by K. Takazawa and Y. Yokoi (A generalized-polymatroid approach to disjoint common independent sets in two matroids, Discrete Mathematics (2019)). For given two matroids on $E$, under…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Satoru Fujishige , Kenjiro Takazawa , Yu Yokoi

In this short note we show that a system $M=(E,r)$ with a ground set $E$ of size $m$ and (rank) function $r: 2^E\to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ satisfying $r(S)\leq \min(r(E),|S|)$ for every set $S\subseteq E$, the Tutte polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Csongor Beke , Gergely Kál Csáji , Péter Csikvári , Sára Pituk

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

We extend the notion of representation of a matroid to algebraic structures that we call skew partial fields. Our definition of such representations extends Tutte's definition, using chain groups. We show how such representations behave…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-12 R. A. Pendavingh , S. H. M. van Zwam

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

Let $t_{i,j}$ be the coefficient of $x^iy^j$ in the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$ of a connected bridgeless and loopless graph $G$ with order $n$ and size $m$. It is trivial that $t_{0,m-n+1}=1$ and $t_{n-1,0}=1$. In this paper, we obtain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Helin Gong , Mengchen Li , Xian'an Jin

Let $M$ be a matroid without loops or coloops and let $T(M;x,y)$ be its Tutte polynomial. In 1999 Merino and Welsh conjectured that $$\max(T(M;2,0), T(M;0,2))\geq T(M;1,1)$$ holds for graphic matroids. Ten years later, Conde and Merino…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Kolja Knauer , Leonardo Martínez-Sandoval , Jorge Luis Ramírez Alfonsín

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

Let k be a field of characteristic zero. We consider graded subalgebras A of k[x_1,...,x_m]/(x_1^2,...,x_m^2) generated by d linearly independant linear forms. Representations of matroids over k provide a natural description of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David G. Wagner