Partial duality and Bollobás and Riordan's ribbon graph polynomial

DOI10.1016/j.disc.2009.08.008zbMath1229.05123arXiv0809.3014MaRDI QIDQ1045159

Iain Moffatt

Publication date: 15 December 2009

Published in: Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3014

zbMATH Keywords

duality; knots; Tutte polynomial; ribbon graphs; graphs on surfaces; Bollobás-Riordan polynomial; Homfly polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05C31: Graph polynomials

05C10: Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory

57M15: Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory

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