Title
Characterizations of transversal and fundamental transversal matroids
Abstract
A result of Mason, as refined by Ingleton, characterizes transversal matroids as the matroids that satisfy a set of inequalities that relate the ranks of intersections and unions of nonempty sets of cyclic flats. We prove counterparts, for fundamental transversal matroids, of this and other characterizations of transversal matroids. In particular, we show that fundamental transversal matroids are precisely the matroids that yield equality in Mason's inequalities and we deduce a characterization of fundamental transversal matroids due to Brylawski from this simpler characterization.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
transversal matroid,alpha function,cyclic flat,beta function. 1,. matroid,fundamental transversal matroid,satisfiability,beta function
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
18.0
1.0
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1077-8926
2
0.71
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joseph E. Bonin15316.74
Joseph P. S. Kung27820.60
Anna De Mier311117.28