Nathan Bowler
Lecture course "Matroid Theory", winter semester 2016/17
Exercise sheets
There will be one exercise sheet per week.
Here are the exercise sheets:
Sheet 1
Sheet 2
Sheet 3
Sheet 4
Sheet 5
Sheet 6
Sheet 7
Sheet 8
Sheet 9
Sheet 10
Sheet 11
Background material:
Tobias Dummschat is kindly putting notes for the course online here.
Lucas Wansner provided his lecture notes for the first 3 chapters of an earlier course on the same subject.
The course is based on the book `Matroid Theory' by James Oxley. We will only discuss finite matroids
Log:
| 3.4. | Implementation of matroids in terms of independent sets; bases.
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| 5.4. | Circuits and the rank function
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| 10.4. | Closure operators and geometric presentations
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| 12.4. | Duality: definition and fundamental properties
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| 17.4. | Duals of representable matroids
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