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On a matroid generalization of graph connectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

James G. Oxley
James G. Oxley
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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This paper relates the concept of n-connection for graphs to Tutte's theory of n-connection for matroids (12). In particular, we show how Tutte's definition may be modified to give a matroid concept directly generalizing the graph-theoretic notion of n-connection.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 90 , Issue 2 , September 1981 , pp. 207 - 214
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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