Unique maximality conjecture for matroids avoiding dual symmetric-tensor circuits

Let n,tn,t be non-negative integers with nt+1n\geq t+1, and define

X={Ka,b:a,b1, a+b=t+2}.{\cal X}=\{K_{a,b}:a,b\geq 1,\ a+b=t+2\}.

An X{\cal X}-matroid on KnK_n is a matroid in the family whose specified circuits are the complete bipartite graphs in X{\cal X}.

Unique maximality conjecture. There is a unique maximal X{\cal X}-matroid on KnK_n.

The preceding discussion says that the analogous family defined only by K1,t+1K_{1,t+1} is not uniquely maximal when t4t\geq 4, motivating this conjecture; no resolution of the X{\cal X}-matroid conjecture is supplied.

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Primary source

Bill Jackson and Shin-ichi Tanigawa, “Symmetric Tensor Matroids, Dual Rigidity Matroids, and the Maximality Conjecture”, arXiv:2503.14780 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1911.00207.

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