Title
Inequivalent Representations of Bias Matroids
Abstract
Suppose that $q$ is a prime power exceeding five. For every integer $N$ there exists a 3-connected GF($q$)-representable matroid that has at least $N$ inequivalent GF($q$)-representations. In contrast to this, Geelen, Oxley, Vertigan and Whittle have conjectured that, for any integer $r 2$, there exists an integer $n(q,\, r)$ such that if $M$ is a 3-connected GF($q$)-representable matroid and $M$ has no rank-$r$ free-swirl or rank-$r$ free-spike minor, then $M$ has at most $n(q,\, r)$ inequivalent GF($q$)-representations. The main result of this paper is a proof of this conjecture for Zaslavsky's class of bias matroids.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1017/S0963548305006838
Combinatorics, Probability & Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
main result,bias matroids,3-connected gf,prime power,representable matroid,inequivalent gf,inequivalent representations
Integer,Matroid,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Existential quantification,Conjecture,Prime power,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
4
0963-5483
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dillon Mayhew110218.63