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Computing Girth and Cogirth in Perturbed Graphic Matroids

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We give polynomial-time randomized algorithms for computing the girth and the cogirth of binary matroids that are low-rank perturbations of graphic matroids.

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  1. Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Jim Geelen

  2. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Rohan Kapadia

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This research was partially supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research [N00014-10-1-0851].

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Geelen, J., Kapadia, R. Computing Girth and Cogirth in Perturbed Graphic Matroids. Combinatorica 38, 167–191 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-016-3445-3

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