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In this paper we unify two families of topological Tutte polynomials. The first family is that coming from the surface Tutte polynomial, a polynomial that arises in the theory of local flows and tensions. The second family arises from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Iain Moffatt , Maya Thompson

The recurrence for the $k$-Fibonacci polynomials is usually iterated upwards to positive values of $n$ only. When the recurrence is iterated downwards to $n<0$, there are indices where the polynomials vanish identically. This fact does not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 S. R. Mane

In this article, we construct explicit examples of pairs of non-isomorphic trees with the same restricted $U$-polynomial for every $k$; by this we mean that the polynomials agree on terms with degree at most $k+1$. The main tool for this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 José Aliste-Prieto , Anna de Mier , José Zamora

The graph reconstruction conjecture asserts that every simple graph on at least three vertices is uniquely determined by its deck of vertex-deleted subgraphs. In this expository article we survey the conjecture and present an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Emilie Dufresne , Gabriela Jeronimo , Jenny Kenkel , Haydee Lindo , Nelly Villamizar

This paper presents a new generalization of the Genocchi numbers and the Genocchi theorem. As consequences, we obtain some important families of integer-valued polynomials those are closely related to the Bernoulli polynomials. Denoting by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Bakir Farhi

Many combinatorial and topological invariants of a hyperplane arrangement can be computed in terms of its Tutte polynomial. Similarly, many invariants of a hypertoric arrangement can be computed in terms of its arithmetic Tutte polynomial.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-30 Federico Ardila , Federico Castillo , Michael Henley

A {\it tiered graph} $G=(V,E)$ with $m $ tiers is a simple graph with $V\subseteq \brk{n}$, where $\brk{n}=\{1,2,\cdots,n\}$, and with a surjective map $t$ from $V$ to $\brk{m}$ such that if $v$ is a vertex adjacent to $v'$ in $G$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Fengming Dong , Sherry H. F. Yan

The main object of this paper is to investigate a new class of the generalized Hurwitz type poly-Bernoulli numbers and polynomials from which we derive some algorithms for evaluating the Hurwitz type poly-Bernoulli numbers and polynomials.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Mohamed Amine Boutiche , Mohamed Mechacha , Mourad Rahmani

We introduce a class of pairs of graphs consisting of two cliques joined by an arbitrary number of edges. The members of a pair have the property that the clique-bridging edge-set of one graph is the complement of that of the other. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-08 Adam Bohn

Complement-reducible graphs (or cographs) are the graphs formed from the single-vertex graph by the operations of complement and disjoint union. By combining the Johnson-Newman theorem on generalized cospectrality with the standard tools in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Wei Wang , Ximei Huang

This paper derives sparse recurrence relations between orthogonal polynomials on a triangle and their partial derivatives, which are analogous to recurrence relations for Jacobi polynomials. We derive these recurrences in a systematic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Sheehan Olver , Alex Townsend , Geoff Vasil

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

We describe in this note a new invariant of rooted trees. We argue that the invariant is interesting on it own, and that it has connections to knot theory and homological algebra. However, the real reason that we propose this invariant to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Jozef H. Przytycki

A generalized vertex join of a graph is obtained by joining an arbitrary multiset of its vertices to a new vertex. We present a low-order polynomial time algorithm for finding the chromatic polynomials of generalized vertex joins of trees,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Boris Brimkov , Illya V. Hicks

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

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

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

The aim of the article is to understand the combinatorics of snake graphs by means of linear algebra. In particular, we apply Kasteleyn's and Temperley--Fisher's ideas about spectral properties of weighted adjacency matrices of planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-28 James P. Bradshaw , Philipp Lampe , Dusan Ziga

We study Dohmen--P\"onitz--Tittmann's bivariate chromatic polynomial $c_\Gamma(k,l)$ which counts all $(k+l)$-colorings of a graph $\Gamma$ such that adjacent vertices get different colors if they are $\le k$. Our first contribution is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Matthias Beck , Mela Hardin

We prove that the two-variable Tutte polynomial of hypergraphs can be defined via embedding activities. We also prove that embedding activities of hypergraphs yield a Crapo-style decomposition of $\mathbb{Z}^E$, thus generalizing Bernardi's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Lilla Tóthmérész