Journal of Combinatorics

Volume 14 (2023)

Number 2

A Cantor–Bernstein theorem for infinite matroids

Pages: 257 – 270

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/JOC.2023.v14.n2.a5

Author

Attila Joó (Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Germany; and Department of Logic, Set Theory and Topology, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract

We give a common matroidal generalisation of ‘A Cantor–Bernstein theorem for paths in graphs’ by Diestel and Thomassen and ‘A Cantor–Bernstein-type theorem for spanning trees in infinite graphs’ by ourselves.

Keywords

infinite matroid, Cantor–Bernstein theorem, packing and covering

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

Primary 05B35, 05C38, 05C63. Secondary 03E35.

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The author would like to thank the generous support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and NKFIH OTKA-129211.

Received 29 January 2022

Published 28 December 2022