The Feynman-period characterization of Speyer's invariant

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A graph is cyclically 66-connected if it is 44-regular and has no 44-edge cut other than one isolating a vertex; cyclically 44-connected 33-regular graphs are defined analogously. For such a graph GG, let P~(G)\widetilde{\mathcal{P}}(G) denote its Feynman period after deleting any vertex, and let N2(G)\mathsf{N}_2(G) be the second Speyer invariant.

Period--Speyer conjecture. If two cyclically 66-connected 44-regular graphs, or two cyclically 44-connected 33-regular graphs, satisfy

P~(G1)=P~(G2),\widetilde{\mathcal{P}}(G_1)=\widetilde{\mathcal{P}}(G_2),

then

N2(G1)=N2(G2).\mathsf{N}_2(G_1)=\mathsf{N}_2(G_2).

This would make N2\mathsf{N}_2 a function of the Feynman period on these graph classes. It is supported by all graphs with known periods but remains open.

References

Primary source

Erik Panzer, “Graph theoretic properties of Speyer's matroid polynomial g_M(t)”, arXiv:2506.18788 (2025).

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