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On two classes of nearly binary matroids

Combinatorics 2013-07-30 v4

Abstract

We give an excluded-minor characterization for the class of matroids M in which M\e or M/e is binary for all e in E(M). This class is closely related to the class of matroids in which every member is binary or can be obtained from a binary matroid by relaxing a circuit-hyperplane. We also provide an excluded-minor characterization for the second class.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0522,
  title  = {On two classes of nearly binary matroids},
  author = {James Oxley and Jesse Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0522},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures. This paper has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Combinatorics. This is the final version of the paper

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