An element e of a 3-connected matroid M is essential if neither the deletion M\e nor the contraction M/e is 3-connected. Tutte's Wheels and Whirls Theorem proves that the only 3-connected matroids in which every element is essential are the wheels and whirls. In this paper, we consider those 3-conne
Basis pair graphs of transversal matroids are connected
โ Scribed by Martin Farber
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 460 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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โฆ Synopsis
The basis pair graph of a matroid on the ground set S has, as its vertices, ordered triples of the form (&, &, &), where B, and B2 are disjoint bases and B3 = S(B, U 4). Two such vertices, (AI, AZ, As) and (Ri, B,, IQ, are adjacent if (B,, &, B3) can be obtained from (AI, A*, As) by interchanging two elements of S belonging to different component, of (Al, At, As). It is known that basis pair graphs of grap%-1 cI zx! cographic matroids are connected. We show that this holds for transversal matroids as well.
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