dedicated to professor w. t. tutte on the occasion of his eightieth birthday We characterize the symmetric (0, 1)-matrices that can be signed symmetrically so that every principal submatrix has determinant 0, \1. This characterization generalizes Tutte's famous characterization of totally unimodula
A short proof of Tutte's characterization of totally unimodular matrices
β Scribed by A.M.H. Gerards
- Book ID
- 107826297
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 345 KB
- Volume
- 114-115
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0024-3795
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## Abstract In this paper we present a relatively simple proof of Tutt's characterization of graphic matroids. The proof uses the notion of βsigned graphβ and it is βgraphicβ in the sense that it can be presented almost entirely by drawing (signed) graphs. Β© 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.