A Subset Expansion of the Coloured Tutte Polynomial

  • Authors:
  • Lorenzo Traldi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania 18042, USA (e-mail: traldil@lafayette.edu)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Bollobás and Riordan introduce a Tutte polynomial for coloured graphs and matroids in [3]. We observe that this polynomial has an expansion as a sum indexed by the subsets of the ground-set of a coloured matroid, generalizing the subset expansion of the Tutte polynomial. We also discuss similar expansions of other contraction–deletion invariants of graphs and matroids.