Transversal and cotransversal matroids via the Lindstrom lemma

Abstract

It is known that the duals of transversal matroids are precisely the strict gammoids. The purpose of this short note is to show how the Lindstrom-Gessel-Viennot lemma gives a simple proof of this result.

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