Linking Systems and Matroid Pencils
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چکیده
A matroid pencil is a pair of linking systems having the same ground sets in common. It provides a combinatorial abstraction of matrix pencils. This paper investigates the properties of matroid pencils analogous to the theory of Kronecker canonical form. As an application, we give a simple alternative proof for a theorem of Murota on power products of linking systems.
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