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Exponents of Jacobians of Graphs and Regular Matroids

Combinatorics 2021-01-19 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a finite undirected multigraph with no self-loops. The Jacobian Jac(G)\operatorname{Jac}(G) is a finite abelian group associated with GG whose cardinality is equal to the number of spanning trees of GG. There are only a finite number of biconnected graphs GG such that the exponent of Jac(G)\operatorname{Jac}(G) equals 22 or 33. The definition of a Jacobian can also be extended to regular matroids as a generalization of graphs. We prove that there are finitely many connected regular matroids MM such that Jac(M)\operatorname{Jac}(M) has exponent 22 and characterize all such matroids.

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@article{arxiv.1910.06442,
  title  = {Exponents of Jacobians of Graphs and Regular Matroids},
  author = {Hahn Lheem and Deyuan Li and Carl Joshua Quines and Jessica Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06442},
  year   = {2021}
}