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A circuit covering result for matroids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. H. Mason
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
J. G. Oxley
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra

Extract

The purpose of this note is to prove the following result.

Theorem 1. let M be a connected matroid. Suppose that C is a circuit of M and p and q are elements of M. Then M has circuits cp and Cq such that .

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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