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An entropy argument for counting matroids

Combinatorics 2012-10-25 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We show how a direct application of Shearers' Lemma gives an almost optimum bound on the number of matroids on nn elements.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1210.6581,
  title  = {An entropy argument for counting matroids},
  author = {N. Bansal and R. A. Pendavingh and J. G. van der Pol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6581},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Short note, 4 pages

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