Michael Monagan - Computing Tutte Polynomials

dmtcs:3087 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2012, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3087
Computing Tutte PolynomialsArticle

Authors: Michael Monagan 1

  • 1 Department of Mathematics [Burnaby]

We present a new edge selection heuristic and vertex ordering heuristic that together enable one to compute the Tutte polynomial of much larger sparse graphs than was previously doable. As a specific example, we are able to compute the Tutte polynomial of the truncated icosahedron graph using our Maple implementation in under 4 minutes on a single CPU. This compares with a recent result of Haggard, Pearce and Royle whose special purpose C++ software took one week on 150 computers.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2012
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: edge deletion and contraction algorithms, NP-hard problems.,Tutte polynomials,[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]

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