Corank

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In mathematics, corank is complementary to the concept of the rank of a mathematical object, and may refer to the dimension of the left nullspace of a matrix, the dimension of the cokernel of a linear transformation of a vector space, or the number of elements of a matroid minus its rank.^[1]

The corank of an $m\times n$ matrix is $m-r$ where $r$ is the rank of the matrix. It is the dimension of the left nullspace and of the cokernel of the matrix. For a square matrix $M$ , the corank and nullity of $M$ are equivalent.

Cokernel of a linear transformation

Matroid

For a matroid with $n$ elements and matroid rank $r$ , the corank or nullity of the matroid is $n-r$ . In the case of linear matroids this coincides with the matrix corank. In the case of graphic matroids the corank is also known as the circuit rank or cyclomatic number.

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