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We introduce a connectivity function for infinite matroids with properties similar to the connectivity function of a finite matroid, such as submodularity and invariance under duality. As an application we use it to extend Tutte's linking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-31 Henning Bruhn , Paul Wollan

The {\em breadth} of a tangle $\mathcal{T}$ in a matroid is the size of the largest spanning uniform submatroid of the tangle matroid of $\mathcal{T}$. A matroid $M$ is {\em weakly $4$-connected} if it is 3-connected and whenever $(X,Y)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Nick Brettell , Susan Jowett , James Oxley , Charles Semple , Geoff Whittle

We relate matroid connectivity to Tutte-connectivity in an infinite graph. Moreover, we show that the two cycle matroids, the finite-cycle matroid and the cycle matroid, in which also infinite cycles are taken into account, have the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Henning Bruhn

We introduce the notion of an online matroid embedding, which is an algorithm for mapping an unknown matroid that is revealed in an online fashion to a larger-but-known matroid. We establish the existence of such an embedding for binary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Andrés Cristi , Paul Dütting , Robert Kleinberg , Renato Paes Leme , Neel Patel

The mutually enriching relationship between graphs and matroids has motivated discoveries in both fields. In this paper, we exploit the similar relationship between embedded graphs and delta-matroids. There are well-known connections…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Carolyn Chun , Iain Moffatt , Steven D. Noble , Ralf Rueckriemen

One characterization of binary matroids is that the symmetric difference of every pair of intersecting circuits is a disjoint union of circuits. This paper considers circuit-difference matroids, that is, those matroids in which the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-11 George Drummond , Tara Fife , Kevin Grace , James Oxley

Given two matroids $\mathcal{M}_1$ and $\mathcal{M}_2$ over the same ground set, the matroid intersection problem is to find the maximum cardinality common independent set. In the weighted version of the problem, the goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Aditi Dudeja , Mara Grilnberger

There are many results asserting the existence of tree-decompositions of minimal width which still represent local connectivity properties of the underlying graph, perhaps the best-known being Thomas' theorem that proves for every graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Joshua Erde

Matroid is a generalization of many fundamental objects in combinatorial mathematics , and matroid intersection problem is a classical subject in combinatorial optimization . However , only the intersection of two matroids are well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Tianyu Liu

It has been recently proposed that the natural connectivity can be used to characterize efficiently the robustness of complex networks. The natural connectivity quantifies the redundancy of alternative routes in the network by evaluating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-19 Jun Wu , Mauricio Barahona , Yuejin Tan , Hongzhong Deng

Let $\Lambda(T)$ denote the set of leaves in a tree $T$. One natural problem is to look for a spanning tree $T$ of a given graph $G$ such that $\Lambda(T)$ is as large as possible. This problem is called maximum leaf number, and it is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Peter Bradshaw , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Ladislav Stacho

This article is a survey of matroid theory aimed at algebraic geometers. Matroids are combinatorial abstractions of linear subspaces and hyperplane arrangements. Not all matroids come from linear subspaces; those that do are said to be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Eric Katz

Networks are useful for describing systems of interacting objects, where the nodes represent the objects and the edges represent the interactions between them. The applications include chemical and metabolic systems, food webs as well as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Baruch Barzel , Ofer Biham

In this paper, we consider dynamic matroids, where elements can be inserted to or deleted from the ground set over time. The independent sets change to reflect the current ground set. As matroids are central to the study of many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tijn de Vos , Mara Grilnberger

Consider a linear realization of a matroid over a field. One associates with it a configuration polynomial and a symmetric bilinear form with linear homogeneous coefficients. The corresponding configuration hypersurface and its non-smooth…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Graham Denham , Mathias Schulze , Uli Walther

In this paper, we introduce the problem of Matroid-Constrained Vertex Cover: given a graph with weights on the edges and a matroid imposed on the vertices, our problem is to choose a subset of vertices that is independent in the matroid,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

Greedy minimum weight spanning tree packings have proven to be useful in connectivity-related problems. We study the process of greedy minimum weight base packings in general matroids and explore its applications. For general matroids, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Pavel Arkhipov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

Redundancy needs more precise characterization as it is a major factor in the evolution and robustness of networks of multivariate interactions. We investigate the complexity of such interactions by inferring a connection transitivity that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Tiago Simas , Rion Brattig Correia , Luis M. Rocha

We present a new, novel approach to obtaining a network's connectivity. More specifically, we show that there exists a relationship between a network's graph isoperimetric properties and its conditional connectivity. A network's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Qiang Zhu , Fang Ma , Guodong Guo , Dajin Wang , Weisheng Chen

Quantum network is fragile to disturbances when qubits are transmitted through quantum channel. Reliability is an essential requirement for a quantum network and even the future quantum internet. A metric is needed to describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Ying Liu