IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
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Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Excluded Minors for ℚ-Representability in Algebraic Extension
Hidefumi HIRAISHISonoko MORIYAMA
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2019 Volume E102.A Issue 9 Pages 1017-1021

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While the graph minor theorem by Robertson and Seymour assures that any minor-closed class of graphs can be characterized by a finite list of excluded minors, such a succinct characterization by excluded minors is not always possible in matroids which are combinatorial abstraction from graphs. The class of matroids representable over a given infinite field is known to have an infinite number of excluded minors. In this paper, we show that, for any algebraic element x over the rational field ℚ the degree of whose minimal polynomial is 2, there exist infinitely many ℚ[x]-representable excluded minors of rank 3 for ℚ-representability. This implies that the knowledge that a given matroid is F-representable where F is a larger field than ℚ does not decrease the difficulty of excluded minors' characterization of ℚ-representability.

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