A propriedade Erdös-Pósa para matróides.

Abstract

The number of disjoint cocircuits in a matroid is bounded by its rank. There are, however, matroids of rank arbitrarily large that do not contain two disjoint cocircuits. Consider, for example,M(kn) andUn,2n. Moreover, the bicircular matroidB(kn) may have arbitrarily large rank but do not have 3 disjoints cocircuits. We show a proof obtained by Jim Geelen and Kasper Kabell in (5) to the following fact: for everyk andn, there is a constantc such that ifM is a matroid with rank at leastc, thenM hask disjoint cocircuits orM contains one of the following matroids as a minorUn,2n, M(kn) orB(kn).