Title
Relative Tutte Polynomials of Tensor Products of Coloured Graphs.
Abstract
The tensor product (G(1), G(2)) of a graph G(1) and a pointed graph G(2) (containing one distinguished edge) is obtained by identifying each edge of G(1) with the distinguished edge of a separate copy of G(2), and then removing the identified edges. A formula to compute the Tutte polynomial of a tensor product of graphs was originally given by Brylawski. This formula was recently generalized to coloured graphs and the generalized Tutte polynomial introduced by Bollobas and Riordan. In this paper we generalize the coloured tensor product formula to relative Tutte polynomials of relative graphs, containing zero edges to which the usual deletion/contraction rules do not apply. As we have shown in a recent paper, relative Tutte polynomials may be used to compute the Jones polynomial of a virtual knot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1017/S0963548313000370
COMBINATORICS PROBABILITY & COMPUTING
Field
DocType
Volume
Tutte 12-cage,Tensor product,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Tutte polynomial,Tensor product of graphs,Tutte theorem,Nowhere-zero flow,Chromatic polynomial,Mathematics,Tutte matrix
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0963-5483
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuanan Diao172.86
Gábor Hetyei29619.34