Las Vergnas's second Tutte polynomial conjecture for binary matroids

Let MM be a binary matroid, let TM(x,y)T_M(x,y) denote its Tutte polynomial, and let zz be an integer. Las Vergnas's second conjecture. The value

TM(1+4z,1+4z)TM(1,1)\frac{T_M(-1+4z,-1+4z)}{T_M(-1,-1)}

is an odd integer for every binary matroid MM and every integer zz. This conjecture is the second of three conjectures made by Michel Las Vergnas concerning evaluations of the Tutte polynomial of binary matroids; it is stronger than the first conjecture and weaker than the third. The first conjecture was proved, while the third was disproved; this second conjecture is presented here as the subject of counterexamples.

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Robert Brijder and Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, “Counterexamples to a conjecture of Las Vergnas”, arXiv:1809.00813 (2018).

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