Axioms for infinite matroids
Combinatorics
2013-02-26 v3
Abstract
We give axiomatic foundations for non-finitary infinite matroids with duality, in terms of independent sets, bases, circuits, closure and rank. This completes the solution to a problem of Rado of 1966.
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@article{arxiv.1003.3919,
title = {Axioms for infinite matroids},
author = {Henning Bruhn and Reinhard Diestel and Matthias Kriesell and Rudi Pendavingh and Paul Wollan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.3919},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
33 pp., 2 figs