The finitary partial-field excluded-minor conjecture

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A partial field P\mathbb{P} is finitary if it admits a homomorphism to GF⁡(q)\operatorname{GF}(q) for some prime power qq. Let M⁡(P)\operatorname{\mathcal{M}}(\mathbb{P}) denote the class of P\mathbb{P}-representable matroids. Finitary partial-field excluded-minor conjecture. For every finitary partial field P\mathbb{P}, the class M⁡(P)\operatorname{\mathcal{M}}(\mathbb{P}) can be characterized by a finite set of excluded minors. This generalizes Rota's Conjecture from finite fields to finitary partial fields; the source says it has been settled for only a handful of partial fields.

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Dillon Mayhew, Geoff Whittle and Stefan H. M. van Zwam, “Stability, fragility, and Rota's Conjecture”, arXiv:1006.1418 (2011).

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