Euler characteristic reciprocity for chromatic, flow and order polynomials

DOI10.5427/JSING.2017.16KzbMATH Open1376.05006arXiv1601.00254OpenAlexW2231032176MaRDI QIDQ4597232FDOQ4597232

Masahiko Yoshinaga, Takahiro Hasebe, Toshinori Miyatani

Publication date: 12 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Singularitiesl (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Euler characteristic of a semialgebraic set can be considered as a generalization of the cardinality of a finite set. An advantage of semialgebraic sets is that we can define "negative sets" to be the sets with negative Euler characteristics. Applying this idea to posets, we introduce the notion of semialgebraic posets. Using "negative posets", we establish Stanley's reciprocity theorems for order polynomials at the level of Euler characteristics. We also formulate the Euler characteristic reciprocities for chromatic and flow polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00254

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial reciprocity theoremrational generating function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Graph polynomials (05C31) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07)

Cited In (2)

• Reciprocity and Polynomial Properties for Even Flows and Potentials on Directed Graphs
• What is \(-Q\) for a poset \(Q\)?

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