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Sticky matroids and convolution

Combinatorics 2019-10-03 v3 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Motivated by the characterization of the lattice of cyclic flats of a matroid, the convolution of a ranked lattice and a discrete measure is defined, generalizing polymatroid convolution. Using the convolution technique we prove that if a matroid has a non-principal modular cut then it is not sticky. A similar statement for matroids has been proved in [8] using different technique.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02353,
  title  = {Sticky matroids and convolution},
  author = {Laszlo Csirmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02353},
  year   = {2019}
}
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