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Sparse paving matroids, basis-exchange properties, and cyclic flats

Combinatorics 2010-11-05 v1

Abstract

We provide evidence for five long-standing, basis-exchange conjectures for matroids by proving them for the enormous class of sparse paving matroids. We also explore the role that these matroids may play in the following problem: as a function of the size of the ground set, what is the greatest number of cyclic flats that a matroid can have?

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@article{arxiv.1011.1010,
  title  = {Sparse paving matroids, basis-exchange properties, and cyclic flats},
  author = {Joseph E. Bonin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1010},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages

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