The canonical Tutte polynomial for signed graphs
Acta mathematica Universitatis Comenianae, Tome 88 (2019) no. 3, pp. 749-754
Andrew Goodall; Bart Litjens; Guus Regts; Lluís Vena; Andrew Goodall; Bart Litjens; Guus Regts; Lluís Vena. The canonical Tutte polynomial for signed graphs. Acta mathematica Universitatis Comenianae, Tome 88 (2019) no. 3, pp. 749-754. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/AMUC_2019_88_3_a60/
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We construct a new polynomial invariant for signed graphs, the trivariate Tutte polynomial, which contains among its evaluations the number of proper colorings and the number of nowhere-zero flows. In this, it parallels the Tutte polynomial of a graph, which contains the chromatic polynomial and flow polynomial as specializations. While the Tutte polynomial of a graph is equivalently defined as the dichromatic polynomial or Whitney rank polynomial, the dichromatic polynomial of a signed graph (defined more widely for biased graphs by Zaslavsky) does not, by contrast, give the number of nowhere-zero flows as an evaluation in general. The trivariate Tutte polynomial contains Zaslavsky's dichromatic polynomial as a specialization. Furthermore, the trivariate Tutte polynomial gives as an evaluation the number of proper colorings of a signed graph under a more general sense of signed graph coloring in which colors are elements of an arbitrary finite set equipped with an involution.