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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

A bar-joint framework $(G,p)$ in Euclidean $d$-space is rigid if the only edge-length-preserving continuous motions arise from isometries of $\mathbb{R}^d$. In the generic case, rigidity is determined by the generic $d$-dimensional rigidity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Rebecca Monks , Anthony Nixon

A 1965 result of Crapo shows that every elementary lift of a matroid $M$ can be constructed from a linear class of circuits of $M$. In a recent paper, Walsh generalized this construction by defining a rank-$k$ lift of a matroid $M$ given a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Daniel Irving Bernstein , Zach Walsh

We consider the fundamental Matroid Theory problem of finding a circuit in a matroid spanning a set T of given terminal elements. For graphic matroids this corresponds to the problem of finding a simple cycle passing through a set of given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

B\'ar\'any, Kalai, and Meshulam recently obtained a topological Tverberg-type theorem for matroids, which guarantees multiple coincidences for continuous maps from a matroid complex to d-dimensional Euclidean space, if the matroid has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Pavle V. M. Blagojević , Albert Haase , Günter M. Ziegler

A matroid is a combinatorial structure that captures and generalizes the algebraic concept of linear independence under a broader and more abstract framework. Matroids are closely related with many other topics in discrete mathematics, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Simran Tinani

The ground set for all matroids in this paper is the set of all edges of a complete graph. The notion of a {\it maximum matroid for a graph} $G$ is introduced, and the existence and uniqueness of the maximum matroid for any graph $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Meera Sitharam , Andrew Vince

We look at $d$-point extensions of a rotation of angle $\alpha$ with $r$ marked points, generalizing the examples of Veech 1969 and Sataev 1975, together with the square-tiled interval exchange transformations of \cite{fh2}. We study the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Sébastien Ferenczi , Pasacal Hubert

This paper studies the properties of two kinds of matroids: (a) algebraic matroids and (b) finite and infinite matroids whose ground set have some canonical symmetry, for example row and column symmetry and transposition symmetry. For (a)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-16 Franz J. Király , Zvi Rosen , Louis Theran

Matroid theory provides a unifying framework for studying dependence across combinatorics, geometry, and applications ranging from rigidity to statistics. In this work, we study circuit varieties of matroids, defined by their minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Emiliano Liwski , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Rémi Prébet

We develop a rigidity theory for bar-joint frameworks in Euclidean $d$-space in which specified classes of edges are allowed to change length in a coordinated fashion that requires differences of lengths to be preserved within each class.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Bernd Schulze , Hattie Serocold , Louis Theran

The motivation for this paper is to study the complexity of constant-width arithmetic circuits. Our main results are the following. 1. For every k > 1, we provide an explicit polynomial that can be computed by a linear-sized monotone…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-08-14 V. Arvind , Pushkar S. Joglekar , Srikanth Srinivasan

Consider a collection of points in the plane and the sets of slopes or directions of the lines between pairs of points. It is known that the algebraic matroid on the set of direction constraints between the points is equivalent to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger , Anthony Nixon , Zvi Rosen , William Sims , Meera Sitharam , David Urizar

A linearly constrained framework in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a bar-joint framework where, in addition, vertices with loops are constrained to lie in given affine subspaces. In the generic case, when each vertex is incident to sufficiently many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Zakir Deniz , Hakan Guler , Anthony Nixon

Rough set theory is a useful tool to deal with uncertain, granular and incomplete knowledge in information systems. And it is based on equivalence relations or partitions. Matroid theory is a structure that generalizes linear independence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Yanfang Liu , William Zhu

This note generalizes a result contained in a previous paper [ J. Sanders, Circuit preserving edge maps II, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 42 (1987), 146-155].

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Jon Henry Sanders

We provide a constructive characterisation of circuits in the simple (2,2)-sparsity matroid. A circuit is a simple graph G=(V,E) with |E|=2|V|-1 and the number of edges induced by any $X \subsetneq V$ is at most 2|X|-2. Insisting on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-24 Anthony Nixon

Following the work of Gao and Xie in [2], we state some properties of the inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid. We also give partial answers to a conjecture that states that regular connected matroids are non-degenerate. We link…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Lorenzo Vecchi

In this note we prove a lower bound for the rank of 2-dimensional generic rigidity matroid for regular graphs of degree four and five. Also, we give examples to show the order of the bound we give is sharp.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-18 Shisen Luo

By definition, a rigid graph in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (or on a sphere) has a finite number of embeddings up to rigid motions for a given set of edge length constraints. These embeddings are related to the real solutions of an algebraic system.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Raimundas Vidunas