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JCT
2010
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Lifts of matroid representations over partial fields
There exist several theorems which state that when a matroid is representable over distinct fields 1,..., k, it is also representable over other fields. We prove a theorem, the Li...
Rudi Pendavingh, Stefan H. M. van Zwam
SIAMDM
2011
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An Obstacle to a Decomposition Theorem for Near-Regular Matroids
Seymour’s Decomposition Theorem for regular matroids states that any matroid representable over both GF(2) and GF(3) can be obtained from matroids that are graphic, cographic, o...
Dillon Mayhew, Geoff Whittle, Stefan H. M. van Zwa...
EJC
2011
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Modular elimination in matroids and oriented matroids
Abstract. We introduce a new axiomatization of oriented matroids that requires the elimination property only among modular pairs of circuits. This new point of view leads also to a...
Emanuele Delucchi
JCT
2010
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Lattice path matroids: The excluded minors
A lattice path matroid is a transversal matroid for which some antichain of intervals in some linear order on the ground set is a presentation. We characterize the minor-closed cla...
Joseph E. Bonin
EJC
2008
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Constructive characterizations of 3-connected matroids of path width three
A matroid M is sequential or has path width 3 if M is 3-connected and its ground set has a sequential ordering, that is, an ordering (e1, e2, . . . , en) such that ({e1, e2, . . . ...
Brian Beavers, James Oxley
DM
2002
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14 years 7 days ago
Infinite antichains of matroids with characteristic set {p}
For each prime p, we construct an infinite antichain of matroids in which each matroid has characteristic set {p}. For p = 2, each of the matroids in our antichain is an excluded m...
James G. Oxley, Charles Semple, Dirk L. Vertigan, ...
DCG
2000
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14 years 8 days ago
Mutation Polynomials and Oriented Matroids
Several polynomials are of use in various enumeration problems concerning objects in oriented matroids. Chief among these is the Radon catalog. We continue to study these, as well ...
J. Lawrence
COMBINATORICS
2002
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On the Excluded Minors for Matroids of Branch-Width Three
Knowing the excluded minors for a minor-closed matroid property provides a useful alternative characterization of that property. It has been shown in [R. Hall, J. Oxley, C. Semple...
Petr Hlinený
JCT
2007
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14 years 10 days ago
Biased graphs. VII. Contrabalance and antivoltages
Abstract. We develop linear representation theory for bicircular matroids, a chief example being a matroid associated with forests of a graph, and bicircular lift matroids, a chief...
Thomas Zaslavsky
TIT
2008
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On Codes, Matroids, and Secure Multiparty Computation From Linear Secret-Sharing Schemes
Error-correcting codes and matroids have been widely used in the study of ordinary secret sharing schemes. In this paper, the connections between codes, matroids, and a special cla...
Ronald Cramer, Vanesa Daza, Ignacio Gracia, Jorge ...