The ubiquity of Psi-matroids

Abstract

Solving (for tame matroids) a problem of Aigner-Horev, Diestel and Postle, we prove that every tame matroid M can be reconstructed from its canonical tree decomposition into 3-connected pieces, circuits and cocircuits together with information about which ends of the decomposition tree are used by M . For every locally finite graph G, we show that every tame matroid whose circuits are topological circles of G and whose cocircuits are bonds of G is determined by the set Psi of ends it uses, that is, it is a Psi-matroid.