{ "id": "1605.04288", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-05-13T19:08:40.000Z", "updated": "2016-05-13T19:08:40.000Z", "title": "Almost all matroids are non-representable", "authors": [ "Peter Nelson" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We prove that, as $n$ approaches infinity, the proportion of $n$-element matroids that are representable tends to zero.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-05-13T19:08:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "approaches infinity", "non-representable", "element matroids" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }