We show that for any regular matroid on m elements and any α ≥ 1, the number of α-minimum circuits, or circuits whose size is at most an α-multiple of the minimum size of a circuit in the matroid is bounded by m O(α 2 ) . This generalizes a result of Karger for the number of α-minimum cuts in a graph. As a consequence, we obtain similar bounds on the number of α-shortest vectors in "totally unimodular" lattices and on the number of α-minimum weight codewords in "regular" codes.
Max-flow min-cut matroids 32A Bounding the number of circuits in a graphic or cographic matroid 38