The Steinberg module of a graph

DOI10.1007/BF01190273MaRDI QIDQ1825879zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dina Ghinelli, Dieter Jungnickel

Publication date 1990

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01190273

zbMATH Keywords

bond spacecycle spacestandard moduleSteinberg module

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Paths and cycles (05C38) Finite geometry and special incidence structures (51E99)

Review text

We observe that the Steinberg module \(St_ F(G)\) of a (simple) graph G over a field F is isomorphic to the cycle space \(C_ F(D)\) of an arbitrary orientation D of G over F. Thus the Steinberg module of a geometry is a natural generalization of the cycle space of a graph. Our observation is then applied to determine the dimension of \(St_ F(G)\) and to decide when \(St_ F(G)\) is non-degenerate (with respect to the standard scalar product) - two questions of general interest in the theory of geometries.

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