The principal theme of the present paper is to consider isomorphism classes of binary matroids as orbits of a suitable group action . This interpretation is based on a theorem of Brylawski – Lucas . A refinement of the Burnside Lemma is used in order to enumerate these orbits . Ternary matroids are dealt with in much the same way (Section 2) . Counting regular matroids is more dif ficult , but ...

Geometric semigroup theory is the systematic investigation of finitely-generated semigroups using the topology and geometry of their associated automata. In this article we show how a number of easily-defined expansions on finite semigroups and automata lead to simplifications of the graphs on which the corresponding finite semigroups act. We show in particular that every finite semigroup can b...

We introduce two new types of Dehn functions of group presentations which seem more suitable (than the standard Dehn function) for infinite group presentations and prove the fundamental equivalence between the solvability of the word problem for a group presentation defined by a decidable set of defining words and the property of being computable for one of the newly introduced functions (this ...

Let L be a field which is a Galois extension of the field K with Galois group G. Greither and Pareigis [GP87] showed that for many G there exist K-Hopf algebras H other than the group ring KG which make L into an H-Hopf Galois extension of K (or a Galois H∗object in the sense of Chase and Sweedler [CS69]). Using Galois descent they translated the problem of determining the Hopf Galois structure...