Bonin, Joseph E.; Chun, Carolyn; Noble, Steven D. Delta-matroids as subsystems of sequences of Higgs lifts. (English) Zbl 1461.05025 Adv. Appl. Math. 126, Article ID 101910, 27 p. (2021). Summary: É. Tardos [in: Matroid theory. Proceedings of the colloquium on matroid theory held in Szeged, Hungary, August 29 – September 4, 1982. Amsterdam etc.: North-Holland; Budapest: János Bolyai Mathematical Society. 359–382 (1985; Zbl 0602.05020)] studied special delta-matroids obtained from sequences of Higgs lifts; these are the full Higgs lift delta-matroids that we treat and around which all of our results revolve. We give an excluded-minor characterization of the class of full Higgs lift delta-matroids within the class of all delta-matroids, and we give similar characterizations of two other minor-closed classes of delta-matroids that we define using Higgs lifts. We introduce a minor-closed, dual-closed class of Higgs lift delta-matroids that arise from lattice paths. It follows from results of A. Bouchet [in: Combinatorics. Proceedings of the 7th Hungarian colloquium held from July 5 to July 10, 1987 in Eger, Hungary. Amsterdam etc.: North-Holland; Budapest: János Bolyai Mathematical Society. 167–182 (1988; Zbl 0708.05013)] that all delta-matroids can be obtained from full Higgs lift delta-matroids by removing certain feasible sets; to address which feasible sets can be removed, we give an excluded-minor characterization of delta-matroids within the more general structure of set systems. Many of these excluded minors occur again when we characterize the delta-matroids in which the collection of feasible sets is the union of the collections of bases of matroids of different ranks, and yet again when we require those matroids to have special properties, such as being paving. Cited in 4 Documents MSC: 05B35 Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices 52B40 Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) 05C83 Graph minors Keywords:delta-matroid; matroid; Higgs lift; excluded minor Citations:Zbl 0602.05020; Zbl 0708.05013 × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI arXiv Link References: [1] An, S.; Jung, J.; Kim, S., Facial structures of lattice path matroid polytopes, preprint · Zbl 1430.52016 [2] Bansal, N.; Pendavingh, R. A.; van der Pol, J. G., On the number of matroids, Combinatorica, 35, 253-277 (2015) · Zbl 1363.05005 [3] Bonin, J., Lattice path matroids: the excluded minors, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 100, 585-599 (2010) · Zbl 1231.05054 [4] Bonin, J.; Giménez, O., Multi-path matroids, Combin. Probab. Comput., 16, 193-217 (2007) · Zbl 1121.05023 [5] Bonin, J.; de Mier, A., Lattice path matroids: structural properties, European J. 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