Extending a matroid by a cocircuit |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA |
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Abstract: | Our main result describes how to extend a matroid so that its ground set is a modular hyperplane of the larger matroid. This result yields a new way to view Dowling lattices and new results about line-closed geometries. We complement these topics by showing that line-closure gives simple geometric proofs of the (mostly known) basic results about Dowling lattices. We pursue the topic of line-closure further by showing how to construct some line-closed geometries that are not supersolvable. |
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