Counterexamples to two conjectures about matroids

Abstract

We give counterexamples to two well-known conjectures about matroids: White's conjecture on the generation of the toric ideal by symmetric exchange binomials, and a conjecture of Mason on the log-concavity of the counts of flats of a given rank.

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