Inequivalent Representations of Ternary Matroids

Abstract

This paper considers representations of ternary matroids over fields other than GF(3). It is shown that a 3--connected ternary matroid representable over a finite field F has at most |F|-2 inequivalent representations over F. This resolves a special case of a conjecture of Kahn in the affirmative.

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