On the representability of the bi-uniform matroid

Autor: Ball, Simeon, Padró, Carles, Weiner, Zsuzsa, Xing, Chaoping
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: SIAM J. Discrete Math., 27(3) (2013), 1482-1491
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Every bi-uniform matroid is representable over all sufficiently large fields. But it is not known exactly over which finite fields they are representable, and the existence of efficient methods to find a representation for every given bi-uniform matroid has not been proved. The interest of these problems is due to their implications to secret sharing. The existence of efficient methods to find representations for all bi-uniform matroids is proved here for the first time. The previously known efficient constructions apply only to a particular class of bi-uniform matroids, while the known general constructions were not proved to be efficient. In addition, our constructions provide in many cases representations over smaller finite fields.
Databáze: arXiv