The Feynman-period characterization of Speyer's invariant
A graph is cyclically -connected if it is -regular and has no -edge cut other than one isolating a vertex; cyclically -connected -regular graphs are defined analogously. For such a graph , let denote its Feynman period after deleting any vertex, and let be the second Speyer invariant.
Period--Speyer conjecture. If two cyclically -connected -regular graphs, or two cyclically -connected -regular graphs, satisfy
then
This would make 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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