A base exchange property for regular matroids

نویسنده

  • Sean McGuinness
چکیده

In this paper, we show that for any two bases B and B of a regular matroid, there is an element e ∈ B such that there is a unique element f ∈ B for which both (B\{e}) ∪ {f} and (B\{f}) ∪ {e} are bases of M. This solves a problem posed by White in 1980.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B

دوره 107  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014