Several identities for the characteristic polynomial of a combinatorial geometry

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(80)90032-1zbMath0443.05030MaRDI QIDQ1144032

Tom Brylawski, James G. Oxley

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Möbius functioncharacteristic polynomialmatroidscombinatorial geometrybroken-circuit complexgeometric latticessimplex numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35)

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