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Main Authors: Byrne, Eimear, Fulcher, Andrew
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11666
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author Byrne, Eimear
Fulcher, Andrew
author_facet Byrne, Eimear
Fulcher, Andrew
contents We describe a construction of the Tutte polynomial for both matroids and $q$-matroids based on an appropriate partition of the underlying support lattice into intervals that correspond to prime-free minors, which we call a Tutte partition. We show that such partitions in the matroid case include the class of partitions arising in Crapo's definition of the Tutte polynomial, while not representing a direct $q$-analogue of such partitions. We propose axioms of $q$-Tutte-Grothendiek invariance and show that this yields a $q$-analogue of Tutte-Grothendiek invariance. We establish the connection between the rank polynomial and the Tutte polynomial, showing that one can be obtained from the other by convolution.
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spellingShingle Invariants of Tutte Partitions and a $q$-Analogue
Byrne, Eimear
Fulcher, Andrew
Combinatorics
We describe a construction of the Tutte polynomial for both matroids and $q$-matroids based on an appropriate partition of the underlying support lattice into intervals that correspond to prime-free minors, which we call a Tutte partition. We show that such partitions in the matroid case include the class of partitions arising in Crapo's definition of the Tutte polynomial, while not representing a direct $q$-analogue of such partitions. We propose axioms of $q$-Tutte-Grothendiek invariance and show that this yields a $q$-analogue of Tutte-Grothendiek invariance. We establish the connection between the rank polynomial and the Tutte polynomial, showing that one can be obtained from the other by convolution.
title Invariants of Tutte Partitions and a $q$-Analogue
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11666