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A cancellation-free antipode formula (for uniform matroids) for the restriction-contraction matroid Hopf algebra

Combinatorics 2017-07-07 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we give a cancellation-free antipode formula (for uniform matroids) for the restriction-contraction matroid Hopf algebra, using the technique of splitting and merging via a sign-reversing involution. The cancellation-free formula expresses the antipode of uniform matroids as a sum over certain ordered set partitions.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04343,
  title  = {A cancellation-free antipode formula (for uniform matroids) for the restriction-contraction matroid Hopf algebra},
  author = {Eric Bucher and Jacob P. Matherne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04343},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages. Added some references in v2. Added some corrections in v3. Comments welcome!