Matroid embedding

In combinatorics, a matroid embedding is a set system (F, E), where F is a collection of feasible sets, that satisfies the following properties.

  1. Accessibility property: Every non-empty feasible set X contains an element x such that X \ {x} is feasible.
  2. Extensibility property: For every feasible subset X of a basis (i.e., maximal feasible set) B, some element in B but not in X belongs to the extension ext(X) of X, where ext(X) is the set of all elements e not in X such that X ∪ {e} is feasible.
  3. Closure–congruence property: For every superset A of a feasible set X disjoint from ext(X), A ∪ {e} is contained in some feasible set for either all e or no e in ext(X).
  4. The collection of all subsets of feasible sets forms a matroid.

Matroid embeddings were introduced by Helman, Moret & Shapiro (1993) to characterize problems that can be optimized by a greedy algorithm.

References

  • Helman, Paul; Moret, Bernard M. E.; Shapiro, Henry D. (1993), "An exact characterization of greedy structures", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 6 (2): 274–283, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.37.1825, doi:10.1137/0406021, MR 1215233

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