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A Regular Unimodular Triangulation of the Matroid Base Polytope

Combinatorics 2024-04-05 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We produce the first regular unimodular triangulation of an arbitrary matroid base polytope. We then extend our triangulation to integral generalized permutahedra. Prior to this work it was unknown whether each matroid base polytope admitted a unimodular cover.

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@article{arxiv.2309.10229,
  title  = {A Regular Unimodular Triangulation of the Matroid Base Polytope},
  author = {Spencer Backman and Gaku Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10229},
  year   = {2024}
}

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12 pages

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