Chordal matroids arising from generalized parallel connections

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Autori principali: Douthitt, James Dylan, Oxley, James
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Douthitt, James Dylan
Oxley, James
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Oxley, James
contents A graph is chordal if every cycle of length at least four has a chord. In 1961, Dirac characterized chordal graphs as those graphs that can be built from complete graphs by repeated clique-sums. Generalizing this, we consider the class of simple $GF(q)$-representable matroids that can be built from projective geometries over $GF(q)$ by repeated generalized parallel connections across projective geometries. We show that this class of matroids is closed under induced minors. We characterize the class by its forbidden induced minors; the case when $q=2$ is distinctive.
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Douthitt, James Dylan
Oxley, James
Combinatorics
A graph is chordal if every cycle of length at least four has a chord. In 1961, Dirac characterized chordal graphs as those graphs that can be built from complete graphs by repeated clique-sums. Generalizing this, we consider the class of simple $GF(q)$-representable matroids that can be built from projective geometries over $GF(q)$ by repeated generalized parallel connections across projective geometries. We show that this class of matroids is closed under induced minors. We characterize the class by its forbidden induced minors; the case when $q=2$ is distinctive.
title Chordal matroids arising from generalized parallel connections
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07514