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The Tutte polynomial is a fundamental invariant of graphs and matroids. In this article, we define a generalization of the Tutte polynomial to oriented graphs and regular oriented matroids. To any regular oriented matroid $N$, we associate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Jordan Awan , Olivier Bernardi

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

We introduce certain torus-equivariant classes on permutohedral varieties which we call "tautological classes of matroids" as a new geometric framework for studying matroids. Using this framework, we unify and extend many recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Andrew Berget , Christopher Eur , Hunter Spink , Dennis Tseng

Matroids are ubiquitous in modern combinatorics. As discovered by Gelfand, Goresky, MacPherson and Serganova there is a beautiful connection between matroid theory and the geometry of Grassmannians: realizable matroids correspond to torus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Amanda Cameron , Rodica Dinu , Mateusz Michałek , Tim Seynnaeve

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

In the paper [Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Ser. A Mathematical Sciences, 95(10) 111-113], the authors introduce the concept of the Tutte polynomials of genus $g$ and announce that each matroid $M$ can be reconstructed from its Tutte…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Manabu Oura , Tadashi Sakuma , Hidehiro Shinohara

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

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

The Tutte polynomial and Derksen's $\mathcal{G}$-invariant are the universal deletion-contraction and valuative matroid and polymatroid invariants, respectively. There are only a handful of well known invariants (like the matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Max Wakefield

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

We construct a new polynomial invariant of maps (graphs embedded in a compact surface, orientable or non-orientable), which contains as specializations the Krushkal polynomial, the Bollob\'as--Riordan polynomial, the Las Vergnas polynomial,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Andrew Goodall , Bart Litjens , Guus Regts , Lluís Vena

The multivariate Tutte polynomial $\hat Z_M$ of a matroid $M$ is a generalization of the standard two-variable version, obtained by assigning a separate variable $v_e$ to each element $e$ of the ground set $E$. It encodes the full structure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Adam Bohn , Peter J. Cameron , Peter Müller

This paper lays out the foundations of graded $K$-theory for Leavitt algebras associated with higher-rank graphs, also known as Kumjian-Pask algebras, establishing it as a potential tool for their classification. For a row-finite $k$-graph…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Roozbeh Hazrat , Promit Mukherjee , David Pask , Sujit Kumar Sardar

The cut polytope of a graph is an important object in several fields, such as functional analysis, combinatorial optimization, and probability. For example, Sturmfels and Sullivant showed that the toric ideals of cut polytopes are useful in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Ryuichi Sakamoto

We prove a `Whitney' presentation, and a `Coulomb branch' presentation, for the torus equivariant quantum K theory of the Grassmann manifold $\mathrm{Gr}(k;n)$, inspired from physics, and stated in an earlier paper. The first presentation…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Wei Gu , Leonardo C. Mihalcea , Eric Sharpe , Hao Zou

The Tutte polynomial is a fundamental invariant associated to a graph, matroid, vector arrangement, or hyperplane arrangement. This short survey focuses on some of the most important results on Tutte polynomials of hyperplane arrangements.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Federico Ardila

We study algebraic properties of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid and its generalizations to other combinatorially defined bivariate polynomial invariants. Merino, de Mier and Noy showed that the Tutte polynomial of a connected matroid is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Andrew Goodall , Florent Jouve , Jean-Sébastien Sereni

In this work, we study matroids over a domain and several classical combinatorial and algebraic invariants related. We define their Grothendieck-Tutte polynomial $T_{\mathcal{M}}(x,y)$, extending the definition given by Fink and Moci in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Alessio Borzì , Ivan Martino

We give a general multiplication-convolution identity for the multivariate and bivariate rank generating polynomial of a matroid. The bivariate rank generating polynomial is transformable to and from the Tutte polynomial by simple algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Joseph P. S. Kung

The Tutte polynomial of a connected graph was originally defined by Tutte as a sum over all spanning trees of monomials depending on a fixed linear order on the set of edges. Tuttle proved that while these monomials do depend on the linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Nikolai V. Ivanov