The 3-connected stabilizer conjecture for universal partial fields

Let NN be a 3-connected matroid. A matroid is PN{\mathbb{P}}_N-representable when it has a representation over the universal partial field PN{\mathbb{P}}_N. The matroid NN is a PN{\mathbb{P}}_N-stabilizer for a class of matroids when its representations determine representations of the matroids in that class up to the relevant equivalence. 3-connected stabilizer conjecture. If NN is 3-connected, then NN is a PN{\mathbb{P}}_N-stabilizer for the class of PN{\mathbb{P}}_N-representable matroids.

The conjecture is presented as related to uniqueness of representation and as having important implications, including an immediate consequence of a theorem attributed to Geelen, Gerards, and Whittle. The source does not state that it has been resolved.

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R. A. Pendavingh and S. H. M. van Zwam, “Confinement of matroid representations to subsets of partial fields”, arXiv:0806.4487 (2010).

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