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The smallest matroids with no large independent flat
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flatindependentmatroidbinarydefineddifferdirectelement
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We show that a simple rank-$r$ matroid with no $(t+1)$-element independent flat has at least as many elements as the matroid $M_{r,t}$ defined as the direct sum of $t$ binary projective geometries whose ranks pairwise differ by at most $1$. We also show for $r \ge 2t$ that $M_{r,t}$ is the unique example for which equality holds.
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