A principal transversal matroid is one containing a basis which spans all cyclic flats. A matroid M is the basis intersection of matroids M1,.. β’, Mk if the bases of M are precisely the common bases of M1,..., Mk. Bondy and Welsh [2], Brualdi [3] and Bixby [1] have shown that every matroid is the ba
Transversal matroid intersections and related packings
β Scribed by David B. Weinberger
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 697 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-5610
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