Hadwiger's conjecture for oriented matroids

Let MM be a loopless oriented matroid with no M(K4)M(K_4) minor. A Hadwiger conjecture for oriented matroids. MM has a nowhere-zero 33-coflow. This is the first non-trivial open case of the oriented-matroid generalization of Hadwiger's graph-colouring conjecture; its dual formulation asserts the analogous statement for coloop-free oriented matroids and nowhere-zero 33-flows. For regular oriented matroids, the conjecture includes the open cases k=4k=4 and k=5k=5 of Tutte's kk-flow conjecture.

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Santiago Guzmán-Pro and Winfried Hochstättler, “Oriented cobicircular matroids are GSP”, arXiv:2209.06591 (2022).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2203.12549.

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