Bounded-Jacobian-exponent conjecture for connected regular matroids

Let MM be a connected regular matroid, and let Jac(M)\mathop{\mathrm{Jac}}\nolimits\left( M \right) denote its Jacobian, a finite abelian group. The exponent of this group is the smallest positive integer mm such that ma=0ma=0 for every aJac(M)a\in\mathop{\mathrm{Jac}}\nolimits\left( M \right).

Regular-matroid Jacobian exponent conjecture. For every positive integer kk, there are only finitely many connected regular matroids MM such that the exponent of Jac(M)\mathop{\mathrm{Jac}}\nolimits\left( M \right) is at most kk.

This is the regular-matroid analogue of the conjecture for biconnected graphs. The source states the analogous conjecture but does not give a resolution of it; the paper instead proves the exponent-22 case and characterizes all such matroids.

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Hahn Lheem, Deyuan Li, Carl Joshua Quines and Jessica Zhang, “Exponents of Jacobians of Graphs and Regular Matroids”, arXiv:1910.06442 (2021).

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