Positroids are 3-colorable

Abstract

We show that every positroid of rank r ≥ 3 has a good coline. Using the definition of the chromatic number of oriented matroid introduced by J.\ Nesetril, R.\ Nickel, and W.~Hochst\"attler, this shows that every orientation of a positroid is 3-colorable.

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