On the notion of transversal of a sum of matroids
Let be a 3-connected planar graph, with . Let be a symmetric matrix with exactly one negative eigenvalue (of multiplicity 1), such that for with , if and are adjacent then and if and are nonadjacent then , and such that has rank . Then the null space of gives an embedding of in as follows: let be a basis of , and for let ; then , and embeds in such that connecting, for any two adjacent vertices , the points and by a shortest geodesic on , gives...
A subgraph H of a graph G is conformal if G - V(H) has a perfect matching. An orientation D of G is Pfaffian if, for every conformal even circuit C, the number of edges of C whose directions in D agree with any prescribed sense of orientation of C is odd. A graph is Pfaffian if it has a Pfaffian orientation. Not every graph is Pfaffian. However, if G has a Pfaffian orientation D, then the determinant of the adjacency matrix of D is the square of the number of perfect matchings of G. (See the book...