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Nov 5, 2017 at 23:57 history edited j.c. CC BY-SA 3.0
fix image
Feb 19, 2016 at 13:39 history edited Emil Jeřábek CC BY-SA 3.0
fix MO 1.0 -> 2.0 transition problem
May 17, 2013 at 9:54 comment added Ralph @Emil: Thank you very much for writing down your original solution. I would like to accept both of your answers, but unfortunately, this isn't possible on MO.
May 17, 2013 at 9:49 vote accept Ralph
May 17, 2013 at 9:49
May 4, 2013 at 2:46 comment added Will Sawin Doesn't this imply that we can check a system is optimal by just checking you can't remove any of the rows, columns, or blocks? That cuts down dramatically on the case work.
May 3, 2013 at 16:05 comment added François Brunault All the consequence relations coming from $\mathcal{D}$ are linear, in the sense that $x \in \operatorname{Vect}(D \backslash \{x\})$ for every $x \in D \in \mathcal{D}$ (here we view $r_i$, $c_j$, $b_k$ as formal linear combinations of Sudoku cells). I think we can deduce from this that the Steinitz exchange axiom holds, and thus $\models$ is indeed a matroid.
May 3, 2013 at 15:59 history edited Emil Jeřábek CC BY-SA 3.0
fix typos
May 3, 2013 at 14:51 history edited Emil Jeřábek CC BY-SA 3.0
describe the full closure operator; added 2 characters in body
May 2, 2013 at 17:01 comment added Emil Jeřábek @François: I don’t know. I find independence rather difficult to check by hand.
May 2, 2013 at 15:25 comment added Ralph Emil, thanks. I'll work through the details of your answer (and the other answers and comments) at the weekend and reply at the beginning of next week.
May 2, 2013 at 15:01 history edited Emil Jeřábek CC BY-SA 3.0
add picture; added 4 characters in body
May 2, 2013 at 14:28 comment added François Brunault Nice! It is not hard to see that any minimal complete set is a maximal independent set. Do you know whether the converse holds?
May 2, 2013 at 14:18 history edited Emil Jeřábek CC BY-SA 3.0
add sample grid
May 2, 2013 at 13:58 history answered Emil Jeřábek CC BY-SA 3.0