Connectoids I: a universal end space theory

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Main Authors: Bowler, Nathan, Reich, Florian
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Published: 2024
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author Bowler, Nathan
Reich, Florian
author_facet Bowler, Nathan
Reich, Florian
contents In this series we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects like undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs or finitary matroids. In this paper we develop a universal end space theory based on connectoids: the end spaces of connectoids unify the existing end spaces of undirected and directed graphs and establish end spaces for bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids. The main result shows that the tangle-like description of ends in undirected graphs, called directions, extends to connectoids: there is a one-to-one correspondence between the directions of a connectoid and its ends. Furthermore, we generalise normal trees of undirected graphs to connectoids and show that normal trees represent the ends of a connectoid as they do for undirected graphs.
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spellingShingle Connectoids I: a universal end space theory
Bowler, Nathan
Reich, Florian
Combinatorics
05C40, 05C63
In this series we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects like undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs or finitary matroids. In this paper we develop a universal end space theory based on connectoids: the end spaces of connectoids unify the existing end spaces of undirected and directed graphs and establish end spaces for bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids. The main result shows that the tangle-like description of ends in undirected graphs, called directions, extends to connectoids: there is a one-to-one correspondence between the directions of a connectoid and its ends. Furthermore, we generalise normal trees of undirected graphs to connectoids and show that normal trees represent the ends of a connectoid as they do for undirected graphs.
title Connectoids I: a universal end space theory
topic Combinatorics
05C40, 05C63
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14704