Let H = (V, E) be a hypergraph and let k ≥ 1 and l ≥ 0 be fixed integers. LetM be the matroid with ground-set E s.t. a set F ⊆ E is independent if and only if each X ⊆ V with k|X| − l ≥ 0 spans at most k|X| − l hyperedges of F . We prove that if H is dense enough, thenM satisfies the double circuit property, thus the min-max formula of Dress and Lovász on the maximum matroid matching holds forM...

In this paper we consider the problem of finding the densest subset subject to co-matroid constraints. We are given a monotone supermodular set function f defined over a universe U , and the density of a subset S is defined to be f(S)/|S|. This generalizes the concept of graph density. Comatroid constraints are the following: given matroidM a set S is feasible, iff the complement of S is indepe...

Rough set is mainly concerned with the approximations of objects through an equivalence relation on a universe. Matroid is a combinatorial generalization of linear independence in vector spaces. In this paper, we define a parametric set family, with any subset of a universe as its parameter, to connect rough sets and matroids. On the one hand, for a universe and an equivalence relation on the u...

Random sampling is a powerful tool for gathering information about a group by considering only a small part of it. We discuss some broadly applicable paradigms for using random sampling in combinatorial optimization, and demonstrate the eeectiveness of these paradigms for two optimization problems on matroids: nding an optimum matroid basis and packing disjoint matroid bases. Applications of th...

This paper presents a theorem concerning a matroid with the parity condition. The theorem provides matroid generalizations of graph-theoretic results of Lewin [3] and Gallai [1]. Let M=(E, F) be a matroid, where E is a finite set of elements and F is the family of independent sets of M (in this paper, we presuppose a knowledge of matroid theory; our standard reference is Welsh [4]). Assume that...