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A Short Proof of Seymour's Characterization of the Matroids with the Max-Flow Min-Cut Property

✍ Scribed by Bertrand Guenin


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Volume
86
Category
Article
ISSN
0095-8956

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✦ Synopsis


Seymour proved that the set of odd circuits of a signed binary matroid ðM; SÞ has the Max-Flow Min-Cut property if and only if it does not contain a minor isomorphic to ðMðK 4 Þ; EðK 4 ÞÞ: We give a shorter proof of this result. # 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)