Tutte Polynomials of Perfect Matroid Designs

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
EUNICE GOGO MPHAKO

This paper gives a general expression for the Tutte polynomial of perfect matroid designs, that is, for matroids in which all ats of the same rank are equicardinal. In particular, explicit expressions are given for the Tutte polynomial of projective and affine geometries over a finite field.

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (09) ◽  
pp. 1950172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nafaa Chbili

In a recent paper, we studied the interaction between the automorphism group of a graph and its Tutte polynomial. More precisely, we proved that certain symmetries of graphs are clearly reflected by their Tutte polynomials. The purpose of this paper is to extend this study to other graph polynomials. In particular, we prove that if a graph [Formula: see text] has a symmetry of prime order [Formula: see text], then its characteristic polynomial, with coefficients in the finite field [Formula: see text], is determined by the characteristic polynomial of its quotient graph [Formula: see text]. Similar results are also proved for some generalization of the Tutte polynomial.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050017
Author(s):  
Hery Randriamaro

The Tutte polynomial was originally a bivariate polynomial enumerating the colorings of a graph and of its dual graph. But it reveals more of the internal structure of the graph like its number of forests, of spanning subgraphs, and of acyclic orientations. In 2007, Ardila extended the notion of Tutte polynomial to hyperplane arrangements, and computed the Tutte polynomials of the classical root systems for certain prime powers of the first variable at the same time. In this paper, we compute the Tutte polynomial of ideal arrangements. These arrangements were introduced in 2006 by Sommers and Tymoczko, and are defined for ideals of root systems. For the ideals of classical root systems, we bring a slight improvement of the finite field method by showing that it can applied on any finite field whose cardinality is not a minor of the matrix associated to the studied hyperplane arrangement. Computing the minor set associated to an ideal of classical root systems particularly permits us to deduce the Tutte polynomials of the classical root systems. For the ideals of the exceptional root systems of type [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], we use the formula of Crapo.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050004
Author(s):  
Hery Randriamaro

The Tutte polynomial is originally a bivariate polynomial which enumerates the colorings of a graph and of its dual graph. Ardila extended in 2007 the definition of the Tutte polynomial on the real hyperplane arrangements. He particularly computed the Tutte polynomials of the hyperplane arrangements associated to the classical Weyl groups. Those associated to the exceptional Weyl groups were computed by De Concini and Procesi one year later. This paper has two objectives: On the one side, we extend the Tutte polynomial computing to the complex hyperplane arrangements. On the other side, we introduce a wider class of hyperplane arrangements which is that of the symmetric hyperplane arrangements. Computing the Tutte polynomial of a symmetric hyperplane arrangement permits us to deduce the Tutte polynomials of some hyperplane arrangements, particularly of those associated to the imprimitive reflection groups.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Abdulgani Sahin

Abstract The Tutte polynomials for signed graphs were introduced by Kauffman. In 2012, Fath-Tabar, Gholam-Rezaeı and Ashrafı presented a formula for computing Tutte polynomial of a benzenoid chain. From this point on, we have also calculated the Tutte polynomials of signed graphs of benzenoid chains in this study.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulgani Şahin

AbstractIn this study, we introduce the relationship between the Tutte polynomials and dichromatic polynomials of (2,n)-torus knots. For this aim, firstly we obtain the signed graph of a (2,n)-torus knot, marked with {+} signs, via the regular diagram of its. Whereupon, we compute the Tutte polynomial for this graph and find a generalization through these calculations. Finally we obtain dichromatic polynomial lying under the unmarked states of the signed graph of the (2,n)-torus knots by the generalization.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 310-322
Author(s):  
R. B. Bapat ◽  
Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

Abstract Arithmetic matroids arising from a list A of integral vectors in Zn are of recent interest and the arithmetic Tutte polynomial MA(x, y) of A is a fundamental invariant with deep connections to several areas. In this work, we consider two lists of vectors coming from the rows of matrices associated to a tree T. Let T = (V, E) be a tree with |V| = n and let LT be the q-analogue of its Laplacian L in the variable q. Assign q = r for r ∈ ℤ with r/= 0, ±1 and treat the n rows of LT after this assignment as a list containing elements of ℤn. We give a formula for the arithmetic Tutte polynomial MLT (x, y) of this list and show that it depends only on n, r and is independent of the structure of T. An analogous result holds for another polynomial matrix associated to T: EDT, the n × n exponential distance matrix of T. More generally, we give formulae for the multivariate arithmetic Tutte polynomials associated to the list of row vectors of these two matriceswhich shows that even the multivariate arithmetic Tutte polynomial is independent of the tree T. As a corollary, we get the Ehrhart polynomials of the following zonotopes: - ZEDT obtained from the rows of EDT and - ZLT obtained from the rows of LT. Further, we explicitly find the maximum volume ellipsoid contained in the zonotopes ZEDT, ZLT and show that the volume of these ellipsoids are again tree independent for fixed n, q. A similar result holds for the minimum volume ellipsoid containing these zonotopes.


2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
VYACHESLAV KRUSHKAL

We introduce a polynomial invariant of graphs on surfaces,PG, generalizing the classical Tutte polynomial. Topological duality on surfaces gives rise to a natural duality result forPG, analogous to the duality for the Tutte polynomial of planar graphs. This property is important from the perspective of statistical mechanics, where the Tutte polynomial is known as the partition function of the Potts model. For ribbon graphs,PGspecializes to the well-known Bollobás–Riordan polynomial, and in fact the two polynomials carry equivalent information in this context. Duality is also established for a multivariate version of the polynomialPG. We then consider a 2-variable version of the Jones polynomial for links in thickened surfaces, taking into account homological information on the surface. An analogue of Thistlethwaite's theorem is established for these generalized Jones and Tutte polynomials for virtual links.


Author(s):  
F. Jaeger ◽  
D. L. Vertigan ◽  
D. J. A. Welsh

AbstractWe show that determining the Jones polynomial of an alternating link is #P-hard. This is a special case of a wide range of results on the general intractability of the evaluation of the Tutte polynomial T(M; x, y) of a matroid M except for a few listed special points and curves of the (x, y)-plane. In particular the problem of evaluating the Tutte polynomial of a graph at a point in the (x, y)-plane is #P-hard except when (x − 1)(y − 1) = 1 or when (x, y) equals (1, 1), (−1, −1), (0, −1), (−1, 0), (i, −i), (−i, i), (j, j2), (j2, j) where j = e2πi/3


2010 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AN,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Moci

International audience We introduce a multiplicity Tutte polynomial $M(x,y)$, which generalizes the ordinary one and has applications to zonotopes and toric arrangements. We prove that $M(x,y)$ satisfies a deletion-restriction recurrence and has positive coefficients. The characteristic polynomial and the Poincaré polynomial of a toric arrangement are shown to be specializations of the associated polynomial $M(x,y)$, likewise the corresponding polynomials for a hyperplane arrangement are specializations of the ordinary Tutte polynomial. Furthermore, $M(1,y)$ is the Hilbert series of the related discrete Dahmen-Micchelli space, while $M(x,1)$ computes the volume and the number of integral points of the associated zonotope. On introduit un polynôme de Tutte avec multiplicité $M(x, y)$, qui généralise le polynôme de Tutte ordinaire et a des applications aux zonotopes et aux arrangements toriques. Nous prouvons que $M(x, y)$ satisfait une récurrence de "deletion-restriction'' et a des coefficients positifs. Le polynôme caractéristique et le polynôme de Poincaré d'un arrangement torique sont des spécialisations du polynôme associé $M(x, y)$, de même que les polynômes correspondants pour un arrangement d'hyperplans sont des spécialisations du polynôme de Tutte ordinaire. En outre, $M(1, y)$ est la série de Hilbert de l'espace discret de Dahmen-Micchelli associé, et $M(x, 1)$ calcule le volume et le nombre de points entiers du zonotope associé.


10.37236/4072 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Pott ◽  
Kai-Uwe Schmidt ◽  
Yue Zhou

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q$ elements and let $X$ be a set of matrices over $\mathbb{F}_q$. The main results of this paper are explicit expressions for the number of pairs $(A,B)$ of matrices in $X$ such that $A$ has rank $r$, $B$ has rank $s$, and $A+B$ has rank $k$ in the cases that (i) $X$ is the set of alternating matrices over $\mathbb{F}_q$ and (ii) $X$ is the set of symmetric matrices over $\mathbb{F}_q$ for odd $q$. Our motivation to study these sets comes from their relationships to quadratic forms. As one application, we obtain the number of quadratic Boolean functions that are simultaneously bent and negabent, which solves a problem due to Parker and Pott.


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