Singularities in Negami's splitting formula for the Tutte polynomial

Abstract

The n-sum graph Negami's splitting formula for the Tutte polynomial is not valid in the region $(x-1)(y-1)=q$ for $q=1,2,\ldots n-1$ with the additional region $y=1$ if $n>3$. This region corresponds to (up to prefactors and change of variables) the Ising model, the $q$-state Potts model, the number of spanning forest generator and particularizations of these. We show splitting formulas for these specializations.