By Kazuo Murota
A matroid is an summary mathematical constitution that captures combinatorial homes of matrices. This ebook deals a distinct advent to matroid conception, emphasizing motivations from matrix conception and purposes to structures analysis.
This ebook serves additionally as a finished presentation of the speculation and alertness of combined matrices, built essentially by way of the current writer within the final decade. A combined matrix is a handy mathematical software for structures research, appropriate with the actual commentary that "fixed constants" and "system parameters" are to be wonderful within the description of engineering systems.
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For a nonsingular mixed polynomial matrix A(s) = Q(s) + T (s), there exist pR ∈ ZR and pC ∈ ZC such that ˜ ˜ A(s) = diag (s; −pR ) · A(s) · diag (s; pC ) = Q(s) + T˜(s) 6 Strictly speaking, “polynomial” is to be replaced by “Laurent polynomial” ˜ (cf. 1), since negative powers of s can appear in A(s). 3 Mathematics on Mixed Polynomial Matrices 25 satisfies ˜ J]+ max degs det T˜[R \I, C \J]. 36) degs det A˜ = max degs det Q[I, |I|=|J| I⊆R,J⊆C |I|=|J| I⊆R,J⊆C A further condition (i) pR ≥ 0, pC ≥ 0, or (ii) pR ≤ 0, pC ≤ 0, may be ✷ imposed on pR and pC .
Namely, two vertices u and v belong, by definition, to the same ∗ ∗ strong component if and only if u −→ v and v −→ u. A partial order can be defined on the family {Vk }k of strong components by Vk ∗ Vl ⇐⇒ vl −→ vk on G for some vk ∈ Vk and vl ∈ Vl . Each strong component Vk determines a vertex-induced subgraph Gk = (Vk , Ak ) of G, also called a strong component of G. The partial order is induced naturally on the family of strong components {Gk }k by: Gk Gl ⇐⇒ Vk Vl . The decomposition of G into partially ordered strong components {Gk }k is referred to as the strong component decomposition of G.
For this decomposition method to be applicable it is assumed tacitly that the matrix in question represents a mapping in a single vector space and is subject to similarity transformations, so that the structure of the matrix can in turn be represented by the associated graph defined above. For a matrix A under equivalence transformations, on the other hand, a natural transformation of a combinatorial nature will be given by Pr APc with two permutation matrices Pr and Pc . For such a matrix there is no reason for restricting Pc to be the inverse of Pr , and accordingly the strong component decomposition does not make much sense.