Rota's Basis Conjecture for Paving Matroids

نویسندگان

  • James F. Geelen
  • Peter J. Humphries
چکیده

Rota conjectured that, given n disjoint bases of a rank-n matroid M , there are n disjoint transversals of these bases that are all bases of M . We prove a stronger statement for the class of paving matroids.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • SIAM J. Discrete Math.

دوره 20  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006