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We introduce the ``trivariate Tutte polynomial" of a signed graph as an invariant of signed graphs up to vertex switching that contains among its evaluations the number of proper colorings and the number of nowhere-zero flows. In this, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Andrew Goodall , Bart Litjens , Guus Regts , Lluis Vena

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 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

This paper surveys a comprehensive, although not exhaustive, sampling of graph polynomials with the goal of providing a brief overview of a variety of techniques defining a graph polynomial and then for decoding the combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-01 Joanna Ellis-Monaghan , Criel Merino

Tutte's dichromate T(x,y) is a well known graph invariant. Using the original definition in terms of internal and external activities as our point of departure, we generalize the valuations T(x,1) and T(1,y) to hypergraphs. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Tamás Kálmán

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

We characterise the digraphs for which the multipaths, that is disjoint unions of directed paths, yield a matroid. For such graphs, called MP-digraphs, we prove that the Tutte polynomial of the multipath matroid is related to counting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Luigi Caputi , Carlo Collari , Sabino Di Trani

We introduce an arithmetic version of the multivariate Tutte polynomial, and (for representable arithmetic matroids) a quasi-polynomial that interpolates between the two. A generalized Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation with applications to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Petter Brändén , Luca Moci

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

In this survey of graph polynomials, we emphasize the Tutte polynomial and a selection of closely related graph polynomials. We explore some of the Tutte polynomial's many properties and applications and we use the Tutte polynomial to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-28 Joanna Ellis-Monaghan , Criel Merino

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

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 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

Cut-and-paste $K$-theory is a new variant of higher algebraic $K$-theory that has proven to be useful in problems involving decompositions of combinatorial and geometric objects, e.g., scissors congruence of polyhedra and reconstruction…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Mauricio Gomez Lopez

We recover the Tutte polynomial of a matroid, up to change of coordinates, from an Ehrhart-style polynomial counting lattice points in the Minkowski sum of its base polytope and scalings of simplices. Our polynomial has coefficients of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Amanda Cameron , Alex Fink

Employing two models, we show that various counting functions of a random variable defined by restriction or contraction of a ranked set with multiplicity (e.g., classical and arithmetic matroids) have expectations given by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Tan Nhat Tran

In this note we provide a higher-dimensional analogue of Tutte's celebrated theorem on colorings and flows of graphs, by showing that the theory of arithmetic Tutte polynomials and quasi-polynomials encompasses invariants defined for CW…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Emanuele Delucchi , Luca Moci

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

The Tutte polynomial is a generalization of the chromatic polynomial of graph colorings. Here we present an extension called the rooted Tutte polynomial, which is defined on a graph where one or more vertices are colored with prescribed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Y. Wu , C. King , W. T. Lu

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