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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 33(3) (2013) 599-602
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1689

Broken Circuits in Matroids---Dohmen's Inductive Proof

Wojciech Kordecki University of Business in Wrocław Department of Management ul. Ostrowskiego 22, 53-238 Wrocław, Poland

Anna Łyczkowska-Hanćkowiak Poznań University of Economics Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy Department of Operations Research al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland

Abstract

Dohmen [4] gives a simple inductive proof of Whitney's famous broken circuits theorem. We generalise his inductive proof to the case of matroids.

Keywords: matroids, broken circuits, induction

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C15, 05B35.

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Received 18 October 2011
Revised 12 July 2012
Accepted 8 November 2012