Differential equations satisfied by generating functions of 5-, 6-, and 7-regular labelled graphs: a reduction-based approach

Abstract

By a classic result of Gessel, the exponential generating functions for $k$-regular graphs are D-finite. Using Gröbner bases in Weyl algebras, we compute the linear differential equations satisfied by the generating function for 5-, 6-, and 7- regular graphs. The method is sufficiently robust to consider variants such as graphs with multiple edges, loops, and graphs whose degrees are limited to fixed sets of values.