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Quasi-graphic matroids

Combinatorics 2017-04-25 v2

Abstract

Frame matroids and lifted-graphic matroids are two interesting generalizations of graphic matroids. Here we introduce a new generalization, {\em quasi-graphic matroids}, that unifies these two existing classes. Unlike frame matroids and lifted-graphic matroids, it is easy to certify that a matroid is quasi-graphic. The main result of the paper is that every 33-connected representable quasi-graphic matroid is either a lifted-graphic matroid or a frame matroid.

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@article{arxiv.1512.03005,
  title  = {Quasi-graphic matroids},
  author = {Jim Geelen and Bert Gerards and Geoff Whittle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03005},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This version corrects a serious error in arXiv:1512.03005v1

R2 v1 2026-06-22T12:05:38.514Z