The symmetric Galois group conjecture for Tutte polynomials of connected matroids

Let MM be a finite connected matroid with positive rank n=r(M)n=r(M), and let KK be a field of characteristic zero. The symmetric Galois group conjecture. The Galois group of the Tutte polynomial TM(x,y)T_M(x,y) over K(y)K(y) is the symmetric group of degree nn. This is suggested by computations for every biconnected graph of order at most 1010. The claim concerns the Galois group of the bivariate Tutte polynomial for arbitrary finite connected matroids and is presented as a conjectural generalization of those computations.

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Adam Bohn, Peter J. Cameron and Peter Müller, “Galois groups of multivariate Tutte polynomials”, arXiv:1006.3869 (2011).

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