Broken Circuits in Matroids-Dohmen’s Inductive Proof

Wojciech Kordecki; Anna Łyczkowska-Hanćkowiak

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (2013)

  • Volume: 33, Issue: 3, page 599-602
  • ISSN: 2083-5892

Abstract

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Dohmen [4] gives a simple inductive proof of Whitney’s famous broken circuits theorem. We generalise his inductive proof to the case of matroids

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Wojciech Kordecki, and Anna Łyczkowska-Hanćkowiak. "Broken Circuits in Matroids-Dohmen’s Inductive Proof." Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 33.3 (2013): 599-602. <http://eudml.org/doc/268224>.

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References

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