Unavoidable Parallel Minors and Series Minors of Regular Matroids
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We prove that, for each positive integer k, every sufficiently large 3-connected regular matroid has a parallel minor isomorphic to M∗(K3,k), M(Wk), M(Kk), the cycle matroid of the graph obtained from K2,k by adding paths through the vertices of each vertex class, or the cycle matroid of the graph obtained from K3,k by adding a complete graph on the vertex class with three vertices.
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Unavoidable parallel minors of regular matroids
We prove that, for each positive integer k, every sufficiently large 3-connected regular matroid has a parallel minor isomorphic to M∗(K3,k), M(Wk), M(Kk), the cycle matroid of the graph obtained from K2,k by adding paths through the vertices of each vertex class, or the cycle matroid of the graph obtained from K3,k by adding a complete graph on the vertex class with three vertices.
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