DMTCS Proceedings, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012)

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Flows on Simplicial Complexes

Matthias Beck, Yvonne Kemper

Abstract


Given a graph G, the number of nowhere-zero Zq-flows φG(q) is known to be a polynomial in q. We extend the definition of nowhere-zero Zq-flows to simplicial complexes Δ of dimension greater than one, and prove the polynomiality of the corresponding function φΔ(q) for certain q and certain subclasses of simplicial complexes.

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