Failure of the matroid matching property in odd-dimensional rigidity matroids

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For integers k≥2k\geq 2 and sufficiently large nn, consider the rigidity matroid R2k+1(Kn){\mathcal R}_{2k+1}(K_n) of the complete graph KnK_n in dimension 2k+12k+1. The matroid matching conjecture. The matroid R2k+1(Kn){\mathcal R}_{2k+1}(K_n) does not have the matroid matching property for all k≥2k\geq 2 and sufficiently large nn. The preceding proof establishes the corresponding even-dimensional result, while the odd-dimensional case is suspected to fail in this way for dimensions at least five and large complete graphs.

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John Hewetson, Bill Jackson, Anthony Nixon and Ben Smith, “k-fold circuits and coning in rigidity matroids”, arXiv:2508.18838 (2026).

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