Several extreme coefficients of the Tutte polynomial of graphs

DOI10.1007/S00373-019-02126-YzbMATH Open1439.05111arXiv1705.10023OpenAlexW3000307408WikidataQ126383376 ScholiaQ126383376MaRDI QIDQ2175779FDOQ2175779

Mengchen Li, Helin Gong, Xianan Jin

Publication date: 30 April 2020

Published in: Graphs and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $t_{i,j}$ be the coefficient of $x^i{y}^j$ in the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$ of a connected bridgeless and loopless graph $G$ with order $n$ and size $m$. It is trivial that $t_{0,m-n+1}=1$ and $t_{n-1,0}=1$. In this paper, we obtain expressions of another eight extreme coefficients $t_{i,j}$'s with $(i,j)=(0,m-n)$,$(0,m-n-1)$,$(n-2,0)$,$(n-3,0)$,$(1,m-n)$,$(1,m-n-1)$,$(n-2,1)$ and $(n-3,1)$ in terms of small substructures of $G$. Among them, the former four can be obtained by using coefficients of the highest, second highest and third highest terms of chromatic or flow polynomials, and vice versa. We also discuss their duality property and their specializations to extreme coefficients of the Jones polynomial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10023

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zbMATH Keywords

Jones polynomialTutte polynomialextreme coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph polynomials (05C31)

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