A combinatorial non-commutative Hopf algebra of graphs

Abstract

A non-commutative, planar, Hopf algebra of rooted trees was proposed in L. Foissy, Bull. Sci. Math. 126 (2002) 193-239. In this paper we propose such a non-commutative Hopf algebra for graphs. In order to define a non-commutative product we use a quantum field theoretical (QFT) idea, namely the one of introducing discrete scales on each edge of the graph (which, within the QFT framework, corresponds to energy scales of the associated propagators).

14 pages, 7 figures; v2 removes the four supplementary pages added by arXiv Latex compiler; v3 introduces a notion of standard labelling for the discrete scales associated to the edges of the graphs. One co-author have been added