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On the complex-representable excluded minors for real-representability

Combinatorics 2019-11-14 v2

Abstract

We show that each real-representable matroid is a minor of a complex-representable excluded minor for real-representability. More generally, for an infinite field F1\mathbb{F}_1 and a field extension F2\mathbb{F}_2, if F1\mathbb{F}_1-representability is not equivalent to F2\mathbb{F}_2-representability, then each F1\mathbb{F}_1-representable matroid is a minor of a F2\mathbb{F}_2-representable excluded minor for F1\mathbb{F}_1-representability.

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@article{arxiv.1801.08656,
  title  = {On the complex-representable excluded minors for real-representability},
  author = {Rutger Campbell and Jim Geelen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08656},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures. Submitted for publication in JCTb

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