On the Coordinatization of Oriented Matroids.
The aim of the paper is to give an effective formula for the calculation of the probability that a random subset of an affine geometry AG(r-1,q) has rank r. Tables for the probabilities are given for small ranks. The expected time to the first moment at which a random subset of an affine geometry achieves the rank r is derived.
Adhesive polymatroids were defined by F. Matúš motivated by entropy functions. Two polymatroids are adhesive if they can be glued together along their joint part in a modular way; and are one-adhesive, if one of them has a single point outside their intersection. It is shown that two polymatroids are one-adhesive if and only if two closely related polymatroids have joint extension. Using this result, adhesive polymatroid pairs on a five-element set are characterized.