On the representability of the biuniform matroid

Every biuniform matroid is representable over all sufficiently large fields. But it is not known exactly over which finite fields they are representable, and the existence of efficient methods to find a representation for every given biuniform matroid has not been proved. The interest of these probl...

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Autores: Ball, Simeon Michael|||0000-0003-4845-2084, Padró Laimon, Carles|||0000-0002-8644-5929, Weiner, Zsuzsa, Xing, Chaoping
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/24101
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/24101
https://dx.doi.org/10.1137/120886960
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Combinatorial analysis
Matroids
matroid theory
representable matroid
biuniform matroid
secret sharing
Matroides
Criptografia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Seguretat informàtica::Criptografia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Combinatòria
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Sumario:Every biuniform matroid is representable over all sufficiently large fields. But it is not known exactly over which finite fields they are representable, and the existence of efficient methods to find a representation for every given biuniform matroid has not been proved. The interest of these problems is due to their implications to secret sharing. The existence of efficient methods to find representations for all biuniform matroids is proved here for the first time. The previously known efficient constructions apply only to a particular class of biuniform matroids, while the known general constructions were not proved to be efficient. In addition, our constructions provide in many cases representations over smaller finite fields. © 2013, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics