Detecting minors in matroids through triangles

2014/12/16 by Albar, Boris, Gonçalves, Daniel, Alfonsín, Jorge L. Ramírez
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.4982

Abstract

In this note we investigate some matroid minor structure results. In particular, we present sufficient conditions, in terms of \em triangles, for a matroid to have either U_2,4 or F₇ or M(K₅) as a minor.

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