Lattices related to extensions of presentations of transversal matroids (Q521371)

Summary: For a presentation \(\mathcal{A}\) of a transversal matroid \(M\), we study the ordered set \(T_{\mathcal{A}}\) of single-element transversal extensions of \(M\) that have presentations that extend \(\mathcal{A}\); extensions are ordered by the weak order.~ We show that \(T_{\mathcal{A}}\) is a distributive lattice, and that each finite distributive lattice is isomorphic to \(T_{\mathcal{A}}\) for some presentation \(\mathcal{A}\) of some transversal matroid \(M\). We show that \(T_{\mathcal{A}}\cap T_{\mathcal{B}}\), for any two presentations \(\mathcal{A}\) and \(\mathcal{B}\) of \(M\), is a sublattice of both \(T_{\mathcal{A}}\) and \(T_{\mathcal{B}}\). We prove sharp upper bounds on \(|T_{\mathcal{A}}|\) for presentations \(\mathcal{A}\) of rank less than \(r(M)\) in the order on presentations; we also give a sharp upper bound on \(|T_{\mathcal{A}}\cap T_{\mathcal{B}}|\). The main tool we introduce to study \(T_{\mathcal{A}}\) is the lattice~\(L_{\mathcal{A}}\) of closed sets of a certain closure operator on the lattice of subsets of \(\{1,2,\ldots,r(M)\}\).