| Article ID: | iaor1995677 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 48 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 285 |
| End Page Number: | 288 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
| Journal: | Discrete Applied Mathematics |
| Authors: | Nakamura Masataka |
| Keywords: | matroids |
This paper presents a generalization of elementary bipartite graphs to a certain pair of matroids, which it calls an ‘elementary pair’, and shows that a matroid pair is elementary if and only if it is irreducible with respect to a decomposition method associated with matroid intersection problems.