Evaluating the Tutte Polynomial for Graphs of Bounded Tree-Width

  • Authors:
  • S. D. Noble

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematical Institute, 24–29 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, England (e-mail: noble@maths.ox.ac.uk)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

It is known that evaluating the Tutte polynomial, T(G; x, y), of a graph, G, is #P-hard at all but eight specific points and one specific curve of the (x, y)-plane. In contrast we show that if k is a fixed constant then for graphs of tree-width at most k there is an algorithm that will evaluate the polynomial at any point using only a linear number of multiplications and additions.