Inequivalent representations of certain classes of matroids
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2002
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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Geelen, Oxley, Vertigan and Whittle conjectured that, for any integer r exceeding two, and any prime power q, there exists an integer n(q, r), such that any 3-connected GF(q)-representable matroid that has no minor isomorphic to the rank-r free-swirl or the rank-r free-spike has at most n(q, r) inequivalent GF(q)-representations. We prove this conjecture for the class of matroids that have no U3,6-minor, the class of Dowling matroids, and the class produced by applying the truncation operator to the family of bicircular matroids.
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Matroids, Mathematics