Well-quasi-ordering of matrices under Schur complement and applications to directed graphs

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Abstract: In [Rank-Width and Well-Quasi-Ordering of Skew-Symmetric or Symmetric Matrices, arXiv:1007.3807v1] Oum proved that, for a fixed finite field mathbfF, any infinite sequence M1,M2,... of (skew) symmetric matrices over mathbfF of bounded mathbfF-rank-width has a pair i<j, such that Mi is isomorphic to a principal submatrix of a principal pivot transform of Mj. We generalise this result to sigma-symmetric matrices introduced by Rao and myself in [The Rank-Width of Edge-Coloured Graphs, arXiv:0709.1433v4]. (Skew) symmetric matrices are special cases of sigma-symmetric matrices. As a by-product, we obtain that for every infinite sequence G1,G2,... of directed graphs of bounded rank-width there exist a pair i<j such that Gi is a pivot-minor of Gj. Another consequence is that non-singular principal submatrices of a sigma-symmetric matrix form a delta-matroid. We extend in this way the notion of representability of delta-matroids by Bouchet.









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