Authors: K Papalamprou L Pitsoulis
Publish Date: 2015/11/30
Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 407-418
Abstract
Networks are frequently studied algebraically through matrices In this work we show that networks may be studied in a more abstract level using results from the theory of matroids by establishing connections to networks by decomposition results of matroids First we present the implications of the decomposition of regular matroids to networks and related classes of matrices and secondly we show that strongly unimodular matrices are closed under ksums for k=12 implying a decomposition into highly connected networkrepresenting blocks which are also shown to have a special structure
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