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A "Staircase" formula for the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson cycle of a matroid

Combinatorics 2024-11-15 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We provide a formula for the Poincar\'e dual of the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson (CSM) cycle of a matroid in the Chow ring of the matroid. We derive the formula from the case of matroids realizable over the complex numbers and prove that it satisfies a contraction-deletion formula. From this fact, we prove it holds for all matroids, confirming a conjecture of Fife and Rinc\'on.

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@article{arxiv.2409.03641,
  title  = {A "Staircase" formula for the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson cycle of a matroid},
  author = {Franquiz Caraballo Alba and Jeffery Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.03641},
  year   = {2024}
}