{ "id": "0912.1182", "version": "v2", "published": "2009-12-07T09:21:30.000Z", "updated": "2010-11-21T17:37:39.000Z", "title": "An Inductive Proof of Whitney's Broken Circuit Theorem", "authors": [ "Klaus Dohmen" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We present a new proof of Whitney's broken circuit theorem based on induction on the number of edges and the deletion-contraction formula.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2010-11-21T17:37:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15", "05A15" ], "keywords": [ "whitneys broken circuit theorem", "inductive proof", "deletion-contraction formula" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0912.1182D" } } }