Generalized spikes with circuits and cocircuits of different cardinalities
Combinatorics
2025-12-18 v1
Abstract
We consider matroids with the property that every subset of the ground set of size is contained in a -element circuit and every subset of size is contained in a -element cocircuit. We say that such a matroid has the \emph{-property}. A matroid is an \emph{-spike} if there is a partition of the ground set into pairs such that the union of any pairs is a circuit and the union of any pairs is a cocircuit. Our main result is that all sufficiently large matroids with the -property are -spikes, generalizing a 2019 result that proved the case where . We also present some properties of -spikes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.14524,
title = {Generalized spikes with circuits and cocircuits of different cardinalities},
author = {Nick Brettell and Kevin Grace},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14524},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
17 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1804.06959