A note on the sticky matroid conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00026-011-0112-7zbMATH Open1233.05076OpenAlexW2012160996WikidataQ123029151 ScholiaQ123029151MaRDI QIDQ659658FDOQ659658

Authors Joseph E. Bonin 

Publication date 24 January 2012

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2553

zbMATH Keywords

bundle conditioncyclic flatsticky matroid conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Semimodular lattices, geometric lattices (06C10)

Abstract: A matroid is sticky if any two of its extensions by disjoint sets can be glued together along the common restriction (that is, they have an amalgam). The sticky matroid conjecture asserts that a matroid is sticky if and only if it is modular. Poljak and Turzik proved that no rank-3 matroid having two disjoint lines is sticky. We show that, for r at least 3, no rank-r matroid having two disjoint hyperplanes is sticky. These and earlier results show that the sticky matroid conjecture for finite matroids would follow from a positive resolution of the rank-4 case of a conjecture of Kantor.

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