How many circuits determine an oriented matroid?
Abstract
Las Vergnas and Hamidoune studied the number of circuits needed to determine an oriented matroid. In this paper we investigate this problem and some new variants, as well as their interpretation in particular classes of matroids. We present general upper and lower bounds in the setting of general connected orientable matroids, leading to the study of subgraphs of the base graph and the intersection graph of circuits. We then consider the problem for uniform matroids which is closely related to the notion of (connected) covering numbers in Design Theory. Finally, we also devote special attention to regular matroids as well as some graphic and cographic matroids leading in particular to the topics of (connected) bond and cycle covers in Graph Theory.
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@article{arxiv.1407.7388,
title = {How many circuits determine an oriented matroid?},
author = {Kolja Knauer and Luis Pedro Montejano and Jorge Luis Ramírez Alfonsín},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7388},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, 6 figures, (improved exposition)