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Matroids with a modular 4-point line

Combinatorics 2014-06-11 v2

Abstract

A result of Seymour implies that any 3-connected matroid with a modular 3-point line is binary. We prove a similar characterization for 3-connected matroids with modular 4-point lines. We show that such a matroid is either representable over GF(3) or GF(4) or has an F7F_7-minor and either an (F7)(F_7^-)- or (F7)(F_7^-)^*-minor.

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@article{arxiv.1309.5329,
  title  = {Matroids with a modular 4-point line},
  author = {Rohan Kapadia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5329},
  year   = {2014}
}

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26 pages

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