diff --git a/notes/counterexample-search-2026-03-26.md b/notes/2026-03-26-counterexample-search.md similarity index 99% rename from notes/counterexample-search-2026-03-26.md rename to notes/2026-03-26-counterexample-search.md index 7c50d1d..af245b0 100644 --- a/notes/counterexample-search-2026-03-26.md +++ b/notes/2026-03-26-counterexample-search.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: Counterexample Search Notes +title: codex - Counterexample Search Notes --- # Goal diff --git a/notes/proof-attempt-2026-03-26.md b/notes/2026-03-26-proof-attempt.md similarity index 99% rename from notes/proof-attempt-2026-03-26.md rename to notes/2026-03-26-proof-attempt.md index 8321954..3d60049 100644 --- a/notes/proof-attempt-2026-03-26.md +++ b/notes/2026-03-26-proof-attempt.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: Proof Attempt and the Strongly Base Orderable Case +title: codex - Proof Attempt and the Strongly Base Orderable Case --- # Status diff --git a/notes/main.md b/notes/main.md index f17e5b3..1295b7d 100644 --- a/notes/main.md +++ b/notes/main.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Let $M=(E,\mathcal B)$ be a rank-$r$ matroid whose ground set decomposes into t assume that $E$ is colored by $r$ colors, each color appearing exactly twice. A basis of $M$ is called rainbow if it does not contain two elements of the same color. -::: Problem +::: {.Problem #prob-rainbowbasecover} What is the minimum number of rainbow bases needed to cover $E$? ::: @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Currently known bounds: ::: {.Conjecture #conj-doublecover} Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be two matroid on the same ground set $E$. Assume that $E$ decomposes into two bases in both of them. -Then $M_1$ and $M_2$ has four common bases that cover each element exactly twice. +Then $M_1$ and $M_2$ has four common bases (allow repetition) that cover each element exactly twice. ::: Let $M_1$ be the partition matroid of colors and let $M_2$ be $M$. @@ -43,9 +43,35 @@ Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be two matroids on the same ground set. 2. If $\beta(M_1)= \beta(M_2)$, then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)\leq \max \set{\beta(M_1),\beta(M_2)}+1$. ::: +Cases that have been verified: + +- If $\beta(M_1)=\beta(M_2)=2$ then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)=3$.^[Note that this case does not give an answer to [@prob-rainbowbasecover] since the covering in $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)$ uses common independent sets instead of common bases.] +- If $\beta(M_1)=2,\beta(M_2)=3$, then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)\leq 4$ +- ... + ::: {.Theorem title="Davies and McDiarmid"} Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be strongly base orderable matroids on the same ground set. Then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)= \max \set{\beta(M_1),\beta(M_2)}$. ::: -See [@berczi_partitioning_2024] for refs. \ No newline at end of file +See [@berczi_partitioning_2024] for refs. Bérczi and Schwarcz generalized SBO using the following definition. + +::: {.Definition title="strongly base reorderable"} +A matroid is called **strongly base reorderable**(SBRO) if for any pair $A,B$ of bases, there exists bases $A',B'$ and a bijection $\phi:A'\setminus B'\to B'\setminus A'$ such that $A'\cap B'=A\cap B,A'\cup B'=A\cup B$, and $(A'\setminus X)\cup \phi(X)$ is a basis for every $X\subset A'\setminus B'$. +::: + +::: Lemma +The class of SRBO matroids is complete(closed under taking minors, duals, direct sums, truncations and induction by directed graphs). +::: + +They also showed that SBRO is sufficient for $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)=\max \set{\beta(M_1),\beta(M_2)}$. + +::: Theorem +Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be strongly base reorderable matroids on the same ground set. +Then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)= \max \set{\beta(M_1),\beta(M_2)}$. +::: + +## Circuit cover + +Let $M=(E,\mathcal B)$ be a matroid and let $A,B\in \mathcal B$ be two bases of $M$. +Define a graph $G=(A\Delta B, F)$. \ No newline at end of file