Chip firing and the Tutte polynomial (Q1387615)

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    Chip firing and the Tutte polynomial (English)
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    26 November 1998
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    This paper shows that the generating function of critical configurations of a version of a chip firing game on a graph \(G\) is an evaluation of the Tutte polynomial of \(G\), thus proving a conjecture of Biggs.
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    generating function
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    chip firing game
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    Tutte polynomial
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