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A NOTE ON THE INDEPENDENCE NUMBER OF AN IDENTICALLY SELF-DUAL PERFECT MATROID DESIGN

Danut Marcu

Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Academiei 14, 70109 Bucharest, Romania

Abstract: Let $E$ be a finite set and $M(E,r)$ an identically self-dual perfect matroid design on $E$, with hyperplane cardinality $c(M)$, and $r$ as a rank function. If $M$ is not the $r(E)$-uniform matroid, we show that its independence number equals $c(M)-1$.

Classification (MSC2000): 05B35

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