Matthias Beck ; Yvonne Kemper
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Flows on Simplicial Complexes
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2012,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3085
Flows on Simplicial ComplexesArticle
Authors: Matthias Beck 1; Yvonne Kemper 2
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Matthias Beck;Yvonne Kemper
1 Department of Mathematics [San Francisco]
2 Department of Mathematics [Univ California Davis]
Given a graph $G$, the number of nowhere-zero $\mathbb{Z}_q$-flows $\phi _G(q)$ is known to be a polynomial in $q$. We extend the definition of nowhere-zero $\mathbb{Z} _q$-flows to simplicial complexes $\Delta$ of dimension greater than one, and prove the polynomiality of the corresponding function $\phi_{\Delta}(q)$ for certain $q$ and certain subclasses of simplicial complexes.