• the matroid intersection problem is to find a largest common independent set in two matroids over the same ground set. If the elements of the matroid are...
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  • In combinatorics, a matroid /ˈmeɪtrɔɪd/ is a structure that abstracts and generalizes the notion of linear independence in vector spaces. There are many...
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  • delta-matroid or Δ-matroid is a family of sets obeying an exchange axiom generalizing an axiom of matroids. A non-empty family of sets is a delta-matroid if...
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    generalization of graph matching and matroid intersection. It is also known as polymatroid matching, or the matchoid problem. Matroid parity can be solved in polynomial...
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    In mathematics, a partition matroid or partitional matroid is a matroid that is a direct sum of uniform matroids. It is defined over a base set in which...
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    proved the matroid intersection theorem, a very general combinatorial min-max theorem which, in modern terms, showed that the matroid intersection problem...
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  • mathematics and computer science, a matroid oracle is a subroutine through which an algorithm may access a matroid, an abstract combinatorial structure...
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    An oriented matroid is a mathematical structure that abstracts the properties of directed graphs, vector arrangements over ordered fields, and hyperplane...
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  • and the flat generated by a set T of elements is the intersection of L with the field K[T]. A matroid that can be generated in this way is called algebraic...
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  • and to compute the largest common independent set in the intersection of two given matroids. The arboricity of an undirected graph is the minimum number...
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    Arrangement of hyperplanes (category Oriented matroids)
    matroid (and has the same relationship to the intersection semilattice as does the matroid to the lattice in the lattice case), but is not a matroid if...
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  • constraints can be done in polynomial time, by reduction to the weighted matroid intersection problem. Gross-substitute utilities are more general than additive...
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    In mathematics, the Vámos matroid or Vámos cube is a matroid over a set of eight elements that cannot be represented as a matrix over any field. It is...
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  • Matroid-constrained number partitioning is a variant of the multiway number partitioning problem, in which the subsets in the partition should be independent...
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  • In the mathematics of matroids and lattices, a geometric lattice is a finite atomistic semimodular lattice, and a matroid lattice is an atomistic semimodular...
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  • a greedoid is a type of set system. It arises from the notion of the matroid, which was originally introduced by Whitney in 1935 to study planar graphs...
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  • In mathematics, a basis of a matroid is a maximal independent set of the matroid—that is, an independent set that is not contained in any other independent...
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  • 2-coloring and 3-coloring for graphs, in the matroid intersection problem for intersections of two or three matroids, and in 2-SAT and 3-SAT for satisfiability...
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  • Algebraic independence (category Matroid theory)
    {\displaystyle T} of elements is the intersection of L {\displaystyle L} with the field K [ T ] {\displaystyle K[T]} . A matroid that can be generated in this...
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  • Not only the structure but also enumerative properties belong to matroid theory. Matroid theory was introduced by Hassler Whitney and studied as a part...
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  • - 3 Intersection of two partition matroids - 6.75 Intersection of a graphic matroid and a partition matroid - 10.66 General matroid with matroid rank...
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  • problems that includes as special cases the minimum-cost flow problem, matroid intersection, and the problem of computing a minimum-weight dijoin in a weighted...
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    definition of the span of points in space, a subset X of the ground set of a matroid is called a spanning set if the rank of X equals the rank of the entire...
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    Ear decomposition (category Matroid theory)
    efficient graph algorithms. They may also be generalized from graphs to matroids. Several important classes of graphs may be characterized as the graphs...
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  • Rota's basis conjecture (category Matroid theory)
    In linear algebra and matroid theory, Rota's basis conjecture is an unproven conjecture concerning rearrangements of bases, named after Gian-Carlo Rota...
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    geometric lattices and matroids, this lattice of partitions of a finite set corresponds to a matroid in which the base set of the matroid consists of the atoms...
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  • matroid theory, the family of sets complementary to the independent sets of a given matroid themselves form another matroid, called the dual matroid....
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    every clique of the underlying graph Partition matroid, a kind of matroid whose matroid intersections may form clique complexes Bandelt & Chepoi (2008)...
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    Sylvester–Gallai theorem (category Matroid theory)
    oriented matroid with n {\displaystyle n} elements has at least 3 n / 7 {\displaystyle 3n/7} two-point lines, or equivalently every rank-3 matroid with fewer...
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  • finite sets form the basis sets of a matroid, the transversal matroid of C. The independent sets of the transversal matroid are the partial transversals of...
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