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On the relative importance of excluded minors

Combinatorics 2011-11-01 v1

Abstract

If EE is a set of matroids, then ex(EE) denotes the set of matroids that have no minor isomorphic to a member of EE. If EE' is a subset of EE, we say that EE' is /superfluous/ if ex(EE - EE') - ex(EE) contains only finitely many 3-connected matroids. We characterize the superfluous subsets of six well-known collections of excluded minors.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6835,
  title  = {On the relative importance of excluded minors},
  author = {Rhiannon Hall and Dillon Mayhew and Stefan H. M. van Zwam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6835},
  year   = {2011}
}

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19 pages