English

Reconstruction of infinite matroids from their 3-connected minors

Combinatorics 2016-06-15 v1

Abstract

We show that any infinite matroid can be reconstructed from the torsos of a tree-decomposition over its 2-separations, together with local information at the ends of the tree. We show that if the matroid is tame then this local information is simply a choice of whether circuits are permitted to use that end. The same is true if each torso is planar, with all gluing elements on a common face.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04235,
  title  = {Reconstruction of infinite matroids from their 3-connected minors},
  author = {Nathan Bowler and Johannes Carmesin and Luke Postle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04235},
  year   = {2016}
}