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Characterizations of Disconnected Matroids

Department of Mathematics, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China

Abstract

Three necessary and sufficient conditions for a matroid in the sense of Betten and Wenzel to be disconnected are given in this paper.

Supported by the NSF of Education Department of Hebei Province (2006105), China.

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AMSC: 05B35, 06C10

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