König's theorem and bimatroids

Bapat, R. B. (1994) König's theorem and bimatroids Linear Algebra and its Applications, 212-213 . pp. 353-365. ISSN 0024-3795

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Abstract

König's theorem asserts that the minimal number of lines (i.e., rows or columns) which contain all the ones in a 0-1 matrix equals the maximal number of ones in the matrix no two of which are on the same line. The theorem occupies a central place in the theory of matchings in graphs. An extension of König's theorem to "mixed matrices" has recently been given by Murota, and it generalizes a determinantal version of the Frobenius-König's theorem obtained earlier by Hartfiel and Loewy. These results are generalized. We consider the setup in which there are two finite sets X and Y and a bimatroid (or linking system) defined on the pair (X, Y). We then prove a minimax theorem for the rank function of the bimatroid which includes some earlier extensions of König's theorem.

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