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Menger's theorem via matroids

Let $G=(V,E)$ be an oriented graph, $Y\subset V$ be some fixed set of its vertices. Call $A\subset V$ independent if there exist $|A|$ vertex-disjoint paths starting in $A$ and ending in $Y$. It is ...
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Do the Odd Cycles of a Graph Define a Matroid?

An Odd Cycle Transversal is a set of vertices that, when removed from a graph, renders it bipartite. Question: does the collection of "critical" sets of vertices, whose removal renders a ...
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Algorithm for finding a minimum weight circuit in a weighted binary matroid

For a given weighted graph $G = (V, E)$, there is a simple algorithm for finding the minimum weight circuit by running Dijkstra's algorithm $|E|$ times. Also for a matroid $M = (E, I)$ one can use the ...
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Is there an efficient algorithm for finding a fundamental cycle basis of a graph with the fewest odd cycles? Failing that, a hardness result on this?

I can think of a greedy algorithm: Let $B$ be a fundamental cycle basis of graph $G$ induced by spanning tree (or forest) $T$ For $e\in T$, let $n_+(e)$ ($n_-(e)$) be the number of even (odd) cycles ...
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