The Holt-Klee condition for oriented matroids

Details The Holt-Klee condition for oriented matroids The Holt-Klee condition for oriented matroids

2006-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/math/0612073v2

Mathematics

Combinatorics

15 pages

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Holt and Klee have recently shown that every (generic) LP orientation of the graph of a $d$-polytope satisfies a directed version of the $d$-connectivity property, i.e. there are $d$ internally disjoint directed paths from a unique source to a unique sink. We introduce two new classes HK and HK* of oriented matroids (OMs) by enforcing this property and its dual interpretation in terms of line shellings, respectively. Both classes contain all representable OMs by the Holt-Klee theorem. While we give a construction of an infinite family of non-HK* OMs, it is not clear whether there exists any non-HK OM. This leads to a fundamental question as to whether the Holt-Klee theorem can be proven combinatorially by using the OM axioms only. Finally, we give the complete classification of OM(4, 8), the OMs of rank 4 on 8-element ground set with respect to the HK, HK*, Euclidean and Shannon properties. Our classification shows that there exists no non-HK OM in this class.

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