2 papers
math.CO2025
-loose elements and -paving matroids
Jagdeep Singh
For a matroid of rank and a non-negative integer , an element is called -loose if every circuit containing it has size greater than . Zaslavsky and the author charac…
math.CO2025
Loose elements in binary and ternary matroids
Jagdeep Singh, Thomas Zaslavsky
We call a matroid element "loose" if it is contained in no circuits of size less than the rank of the matroid. A matroid in which all elements are loose is a paving matroid. Acketa…