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On Serial Symmetric Exchanges of Matroid Bases

Combinatorics 2013-04-19 v3

Abstract

We study some properties of a serial (i.e. one-by-one) symmetric exchange of elements of two disjoint bases of a matroid. We show that any two elements of one base have a serial symmetric exchange with some two elements of the other base. As a result, we obtain that any two disjoint bases in a matroid of rank 4 have a full serial symmetric exchange.

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@article{arxiv.1110.1826,
  title  = {On Serial Symmetric Exchanges of Matroid Bases},
  author = {Daniel Kotlar and Ran Ziv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1826},
  year   = {2013}
}