On the hyperplanes of a matroid
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 65 (1) , 11-18
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100044017
Abstract
Matroid theory was first studied by Whitney (1) as an abstract theory of linear independence in vector spaces. Recently its importance in graph theory has been noticed by Tutte (2), Edmonds (3) and Nash-Williams (4,5). Less interest has been shown in the extremely close relationship between matroids and incidence geometries. In this note we develop the more geometrical aspects of matroid theory, paying particular attention to the fundamental role of the hyperplanes of a matroid in this theory.Keywords
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