Short circuit covers for regular matroids with a nowhere zero 5-flow
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0095-8956
DOI: 10.1016/0095-8956(87)90011-6