SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.56 número1Induced character in equivariant K-theory, wreath products and pullback of groupsOn quantum codes from codes over R m índice de autoresíndice de assuntospesquisa de artigos
Home Pagelista alfabética de periódicos  

Serviços Personalizados

Journal

Artigo

Indicadores

Links relacionados

  • Em processo de indexaçãoCitado por Google
  • Não possue artigos similaresSimilares em SciELO
  • Em processo de indexaçãoSimilares em Google

Compartilhar


Revista Colombiana de Matemáticas

versão impressa ISSN 0034-7426

Rev.colomb.mat. vol.56 no.1 Bogotá jan./jun. 2022  Epub 04-Fev-2023

https://doi.org/10.15446/recolma.v56n1.105617 

Original article

Sizes of flats of cycle matroids of complete graphs

Los tamaños de los cerrados de la matroide gráfica del grafo completo

Christo Kriel1 

Eunice Mphako-Banda1 

1 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa


Abstract

We show that the problem of counting the number of flats of size k for a cycle matroid of a complete graph is equivalent to the problem of counting the number of partitions of an integer k into triangular numbers. In addition, we give some values of k such that there is no flat of size k in a cycle matroid of a complete graph of order n. Finally, we give a minimum bound for the number of values, k, for which there are no flats of size k in the given cycle matroid.

Keywords: Compositions; cycle matroid; flats; triangular number partitions; bad colouring

Resumen

Demostraremos que el problema de contar los conjuntos cerrados de tamaño k de la matroide gráfica de un grafo completo es equivalente al problema de contar las particiones de un entero k en números triangulares. Adicionalmente, daremos unos valores de k tales que no existe ningún cerrado de tamaño k en la matroide gráfica de un grafo completo de orden n. Finalmente, daremos una cota inferior para el número de valores k para los cuales no existe ningún cerrado de tamaño k en la matroide gráfica.

Palabras clave: Composiciones; matroide; particiones de números triangulares

Texto PDF

References

1. G. E. Andrews, Eureka! num = (+(+(, Journal of Number Theory and Technology 23 (1986), 285-293. [ Links ]

2. G. E. Andrews and K. Eriksson, Integer Partitions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004. [ Links ]

3. L. E. Dickson, History of the Theory of Numbers, volume 2, Chelsea Publishing Company, New York, 1971. [ Links ]

4. E. G. Mphako, Tutte Polynomials of Perfect Matroid Designs, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 9 (2000), 363-367. [ Links ]

5. J. G. Oxley, Matroid Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. [ Links ]

6. T. Trotter, Some identities for the Triangular Numbers, Journal of Recreational Mathematics 6 (1973), no. 2, 127-135. [ Links ]

Received: September 16, 2020; Accepted: May 27, 2022

Correspondencia: Eunice Mphako-Banda, School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, P/Bag 3,WITS, 2050, RSA. Correo electrónico: Eunice.mphako-banda@wits.ac.za. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15446/recolma.v56n1.105617

Creative Commons License This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License