The coboundary polynomial is a bivariate graph polynomial which can be expressed
in terms of the Tutte polynomial
of a graph
by
where
is the connected component count and
is the vertex count of a
graph
(Martin and Reiner 2005; Ardila 2007).
The coboundary polynomial provides a particularly concise way of expression generating functions for the Tutte polynomial of a complete
graph
or complete bipartite graph
.