The cyclic flats of a q-matroid

Abstract

In this paper we develop the theory of cyclic flats of q-matroids. We show that the cyclic flats, together with their ranks, uniquely determine a q-matroid and hence derive a new q-cryptomorphism. We introduce the notion of Fqm\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\mathbb {F}_{q^m}$$\\end{document}-independence of an Fq\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\mathbb {F}_q$$\\end{document}-subspace of Fqn\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\mathbb {F}_q^n$$\\end{document} and we show that q-matroids generalize this concept, in the same way that matroids generalize the notion of linear independence of vectors over a given field.