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Partitioning Matroids with Only Small Cocircuits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2002

BOGDAN OPOROWSKI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4918, USA (e-mail: bogdan@math.lsu.edu)

Abstract

We show that, for every positive integer c*, there is an integer n such that, if M is a matroid whose largest cocircuit has size c*, then E(M) can be partitioned into two sets E1 and E2 such that every connected component of each of M[mid ]E1 and M[mid ]E2 has at most n elements.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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