{ "id": "1807.00585", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-07-02T10:38:23.000Z", "updated": "2018-07-02T10:38:23.000Z", "title": "Lattice Path Matroids are 3-Colorable", "authors": [ "Immanuel Albrecht", "Winfried Hochstättler" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We show that every lattice path matroid of rank at least two has a quite simple coline, also known as a positive coline. Therefore every orientation of a lattice path matroid is 3-colorable with respect to the chromatic number of oriented matroids introduced by J. Ne\\v{s}et\\v{r}il, R. Nickel, and W. Hochst\\\"attler.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-07-02T10:38:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15", "05B35", "52C40" ], "keywords": [ "lattice path matroid", "chromatic number", "simple coline", "positive coline" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }