On greedy bases packing in matroids

  • Authors:
  • Brahim Chaourar

  • Affiliations:
  • Riyadh College of Technology, P.O. Box 42826, Riyadh 11551, Saudi Arabia

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Let S be a finite set and M = (S,B) be a matroid where B is the set of its bases. We say that a basis B is greedy in M or the pair (M, B) is greedy if, for every sum of bases vector w, the coefficient: λ(B, w) = max{λ ≥ 0 : w - λB is again a sum of bases vector}, where B and its characteristic vector will not be distinguished, is integer. We define a notion of minors for (M, B) pairs and we give a characterization of greedy pairs by excluded minors. This characterization gives a large class of matroids for which an integer Carathéodory's theorem is true.