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An adjoint of a geometric latticeG is a geometric lattice\(\tilde G\) of the same rank into which there is an embeddinge mapping the copoints ofG onto the points of\(\tilde G\). In this paper we introduce oriented adjoints and prove that they can be embedded into the extension lattice of oriented matroids.
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Bachem, A., Kern, W. Adjoints of oriented matroids. Combinatorica 6, 299–308 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02579255
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02579255