Cyclic ordering of split matroids

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Autori principali: Bérczi, Kristóf, Jánosik, Áron, Mátravölgyi, Bence
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author Bérczi, Kristóf
Jánosik, Áron
Mátravölgyi, Bence
author_facet Bérczi, Kristóf
Jánosik, Áron
Mátravölgyi, Bence
contents There is a long list of open questions rooted in the same underlying problem: understanding the structure of bases or common bases of matroids. These conjectures suggest that matroids may possess much stronger structural properties than are currently known. One example is related to cyclic orderings of matroids. A rank-$r$ matroid is called cyclically orderable if its ground set admits a cyclic ordering such that any interval of $r$ consecutive elements forms a basis. In this paper, we show that if the ground set of a split matroid decomposes into pairwise disjoint bases, then it is cyclically orderable. This result answers a conjecture of Kajitani, Ueno, and Miyano in a special case, and also strengthens Gabow's conjecture for this class of matroids. Our proof is algorithmic, hence it provides a procedure for determining a cyclic ordering in question using a polynomial number of independence oracle calls.
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Bérczi, Kristóf
Jánosik, Áron
Mátravölgyi, Bence
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
There is a long list of open questions rooted in the same underlying problem: understanding the structure of bases or common bases of matroids. These conjectures suggest that matroids may possess much stronger structural properties than are currently known. One example is related to cyclic orderings of matroids. A rank-$r$ matroid is called cyclically orderable if its ground set admits a cyclic ordering such that any interval of $r$ consecutive elements forms a basis. In this paper, we show that if the ground set of a split matroid decomposes into pairwise disjoint bases, then it is cyclically orderable. This result answers a conjecture of Kajitani, Ueno, and Miyano in a special case, and also strengthens Gabow's conjecture for this class of matroids. Our proof is algorithmic, hence it provides a procedure for determining a cyclic ordering in question using a polynomial number of independence oracle calls.
title Cyclic ordering of split matroids
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01061