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The aim of this work is to explicitly compute the K-theory of the category of matroids with respect to the covering family of Tutte coverings. In particular, we show that this is equivalent to the K-theory spectrum of the category of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Luigi Caputi , Sabino Di Trani

The Tutte polynomial is a fundamental invariant of graphs. In this article, we define and study a generalization of the Tutte polynomial for directed graphs, that we name B-polynomial. The B-polynomial has three variables, but when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Jordan Awan , Olivier Bernardi

We primarily investigate the properties of characteristic polynomials of semimatroids. In particular, we provide a combinatorial interpretation of their coefficients, generalizing the Whitney's Broken Circuit Theorem. We also prove that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-03 Houshan Fu

Generalizing the classical matrix-tree theorem we provide a formula counting subgraphs of a given graph with a fixed 2-core. We use this generalization to obtain an analog of the matrix-tree theorem for the root system $D_n$ (the classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yurii Burman , Boris Shapiro

The Tutte polynomial is a significant invariant of graphs and matroids. It is well-known that it has three equivalent definitions: bases expansion, rank generating function, and deletion-contraction formula. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin , Weiling Yang

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

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

Several properties of the isotropic matroid of a looped simple graph are presented. Results include a characterization of the multimatroids that are associated with isotropic matroids and several ways in which the isotropic matroid of G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Robert Brijder , Lorenzo Traldi

In the present paper, we introduce the concept of harmonic Tutte polynomials of matroids and discuss some of their properties. In particular, we generalize Greene's theorem, thereby expressing harmonic weight enumerators of codes as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Himadri Shekhar Chakraborty , Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Manabu Oura

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 consider the class of graphs for which the edge connectivity is equal to the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees, and the natural generalization to matroids, where the cogirth is equal to the number of disjoint bases. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Robert F. Bailey , Mike Newman , Brett Stevens

For a polymatroid $P$ over $[n]$, Bernardi, K\'{a}lm\'{a}n and Postnikov [\emph{Adv. Math.} 402 (2022) 108355] introduced the polymatroid Tutte polynomial $\mathscr{T}_{P}$ relying on the order $1<2<\cdots<n$ of $[n]$, which generalizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin

Matroid theory is often thought of as a generalization of graph theory. In this paper we propose an analogous correspondence between embedded graphs and delta-matroids. We show that delta-matroids arise as the natural extension of graphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Carolyn Chun , Iain Moffatt , Steven D. Noble , Ralf Rueckriemen

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

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

We relate matroid connectivity to Tutte-connectivity in an infinite graph. Moreover, we show that the two cycle matroids, the finite-cycle matroid and the cycle matroid, in which also infinite cycles are taken into account, have the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Henning Bruhn

Generalizing a well known theorem for finite matroids, we prove that for every (infinite) connected matroid M there is a unique tree T such that the nodes of T correspond to minors of M that are either 3-connected or circuits or cocircuits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Elad Aigner-Horev , Reinhard Diestel , Luke Postle

In this paper we employ Tutte's theory of bridges to derive a decomposition theorem for binary matroids arising from signed graphs. The proposed decomposition differs from previous decomposition results on matroids that have appeared in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Konstantinos Papalamprou , Leonidas Pitsoulis

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 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