diff --git a/notes/main.md b/notes/main.md index 1295b7d..69ad501 100644 --- a/notes/main.md +++ b/notes/main.md @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be two matroids on the same ground set. 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 $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)\leq 4$ -- ... +- If $\beta(M_1)=2,\beta(M_2)=3$, then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)\leq 4$. +- If $\beta(M_1)=2,\beta(M_2)=k\geq 4$, then $\beta(M_1\cap M_2)\leq 2\ceil{k/2}+2$. ::: {.Theorem title="Davies and McDiarmid"} Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be strongly base orderable matroids on the same ground set. @@ -74,4 +74,39 @@ 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 +Given a graph $G=(A\Delta B, F)$, we say $G$ covers a circuit $C\subset A\Delta B$ if the induced subgraph $G[C]$ contains an edge. +For a class of circuits $\mathcal C$ in $A\Delta B$, we say $G$ covers $\mathcal C$ if $G$ covers every circuit in $\mathcal C$. + + +::: {.Conjecture #conj-alterpath} +Let $A,B$ be bases of a matroid $M$. Then there exists a path that alternates between $A\setminus B$ and $B\setminus A$ and covers $\mathcal C[A\cup B]$. +::: + +Bérczi and Schwarcz [@berczi_partitioning_2024] verified this conjecture for graphic matroids, paving matroids and spikes. They also showed an useful lemma: + +::: {.Lemma title="informal" #lem-reduction} +To verify [@conj-alterpath] for a minor closed class of matroids, one only need to consider matroids in this class whose ground set can be partitioned into two disjoint bases. +::: + + +# [@conj-alterpath] on cographic matroid + +::: Lemma +[@conj-alterpath] holds on cographic matroids. +::: + +::: Proof +By [@lem-reduction] it suffices to show the following: Let $A,B$ be two spanning trees on vertex set $V$. One can find a sequence of edges in $A$ and $B$ such that + +1. no consecutive edges belong to $A$ or $B$, and that +2. every cut in $(V,A\cup B)$ contains some consecutive edge pair in the sequence. + +We prove by induction on $|V|$. + +- If $|V|=2$, there is only one non-empty cut. +- Suppose that the lemma holds for $|V|