Constructing internally 4-connected binary matroids |
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Authors: | Carolyn Chun Dillon Mayhew James Oxley |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand;2. Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA |
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Abstract: | In an earlier paper, we proved that an internally 4-connected binary matroid with at least seven elements contains an internally 4-connected proper minor that is at most six elements smaller. We refine this result, by giving detailed descriptions of the operations required to produce the internally 4-connected minor. Each of these operations is top-down, in that it produces a smaller minor from the original. We also describe each as a bottom-up operation, constructing a larger matroid from the original, and we give necessary and sufficient conditions for each of these bottom-up moves to produce an internally 4-connected binary matroid. From this, we derive a constructive method for generating all internally 4-connected binary matroids. |
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Keywords: | 05B35 05C40 |
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