English

Representing matroids via pasture morphisms

Combinatorics 2023-07-27 v1

Abstract

Using the framework of pastures and foundations of matroids developed by Baker-Lorscheid, we give algorithms to: (i) compute the foundation of a matroid, and (ii) compute all morphisms between two pastures. Together, these provide an efficient method of solving many questions of interest in matroid representations, including orientability, non-representability, and computing all representations of a matroid over a finite field.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14275,
  title  = {Representing matroids via pasture morphisms},
  author = {Tianyi Zhang and Justin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14275},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

22 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Comments welcome

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