On the Congruency-Constrained Matroid Base

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Main Authors: Liu, Siyue, Xu, Chao
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Published: 2023
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author Liu, Siyue
Xu, Chao
author_facet Liu, Siyue
Xu, Chao
contents Consider a matroid where all elements are labeled with an element in $\mathbb{Z}$. We are interested in finding a base where the sum of the labels is congruent to $g \pmod m$. We show that this problem can be solved in $\tilde{O}(2^{4m} n r^{5/6})$ time for a matroid with $n$ elements and rank $r$, when $m$ is either the product of two primes or a prime power. The algorithm can be generalized to all moduli and, in fact, to all abelian groups if a classic additive combinatorics conjecture by Schrijver and Seymour holds true. We also discuss the optimization version of the problem.
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spellingShingle On the Congruency-Constrained Matroid Base
Liu, Siyue
Xu, Chao
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Optimization and Control
Consider a matroid where all elements are labeled with an element in $\mathbb{Z}$. We are interested in finding a base where the sum of the labels is congruent to $g \pmod m$. We show that this problem can be solved in $\tilde{O}(2^{4m} n r^{5/6})$ time for a matroid with $n$ elements and rank $r$, when $m$ is either the product of two primes or a prime power. The algorithm can be generalized to all moduli and, in fact, to all abelian groups if a classic additive combinatorics conjecture by Schrijver and Seymour holds true. We also discuss the optimization version of the problem.
title On the Congruency-Constrained Matroid Base
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11737