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The configuration of a matroid $M$ is the abstract lattice of cyclic flats (flats that are unions of circuits) where we record the size and rank of each cyclic flat, but not the set. One can compute the Tutte polynomial of $M$, and stronger…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Joseph E. Bonin , Anna de Mier

We introduce and study filtrations of a matroid on a linearly ordered ground set, which are particular sequences of nested sets. A given basis can be decomposed into a uniquely defined sequence of bases of minors, such that these bases have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Emeric Gioan , Michel Las Vergnas

We prove that the Tutte polynomial of a coloopless paving matroid is convex along the portions of the line segments x+y=p lying in the positive quadrant. Every coloopless paving matroids is in the class of matroids which contain two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-16 L. E. Chavez-Lomelí , C. Merino , S. D. Noble , M. Ramírez-Ibañez

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

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

From the configuration of a matroid (which records the size and rank of the cyclic flats and the containments among them, but not the sets), one can compute several much-studied matroid invariants, including the Tutte polynomial and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin

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

We prove some variants of the exponential formula and apply them to the multivariate Tutte polynomials (also known as Potts-model partition functions) of graphs. We also prove some further identities for the multivariate Tutte polynomial,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-16 Alexander D. Scott , Alan D. Sokal

We introduce the minor-closed, dual-closed class of multi-path matroids. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the Tutte polynomial of a multi-path matroid, we describe their basis activities, and we prove some basic structural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin , Omer Gimenez

A common generalization for the chromatic polynomial and the flow polynomial of a graph $G$ is the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$. The combinatorial meaning for the coefficients of $T$ was discovered by Tutte at the beginning of its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-16 Beifang Chen

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

A generalization of Tutte polynomial involved in the evaluation of the moments of the integrated geometric Brownian in the Ito formalism is discussed. The new combinatorial invariant depends on the order in which the sequence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 Joseph Ben Geloun , Francesco Caravelli

We define and study the Tutte polynomial of a hyperplane arrangement. We introduce a method for computing it by solving an enumerative problem in a finite field. For specific arrangements, the computation of Tutte polynomials is then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Federico Ardila

This is a chapter destined for the book "Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial". The chapter is a composite. The first part is a brief introduction to Orlik-Solomon algebras. The second part sketches the theory of evaluative functions on matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Michael J. Falk , Joseph P. S. Kung

We give explicit recursive constructions for the polytope of all matroids $\Omega_{r,n}$ in ranks 2 and 3 for all ground set sizes. This polytope was introduced in recent work by Ferroni and Fink as a tool for checking positivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Narayan Collins , Victoria Schleis

We consider the Tutte polynomial of three classes of greedoids: those arising from rooted graphs, rooted digraphs and binary matrices. We establish the computational complexity of evaluating each of these polynomials at each fixed rational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Christopher Knapp , Steven Noble

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

The catenary data of a matroid $M$ of rank $r$ on $n$ elements is the vector $(\nu(M;a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_r))$, indexed by compositions $(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_r)$, where $a_0 \geq 0$,\, $a_i > 0$ for $i \geq 1$, and $a_0+ a_1 + \cdots + a_r = n$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Joseph E. Bonin , Joseph P. S. Kung

Using Tutte's combinatorial definition of a map we define a $\Delta$-matroid purely combinatorially and show that it is identical to Bouchet's topological definition.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Rémi Cocou Avohou , Brigitte Servatius , Herman Servatius

There are several different extensions of the Tutte polynomial to graphs embedded in surfaces. To help frame the different options, here we consider the problem of extending the Tutte polynomial to cellularly embedded graphs starting from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Iain Moffatt