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Combinatorics of symmetric plabic graphs

Combinatorics 2017-03-21 v2

Abstract

A plabic graph is a planar bicolored graph embedded in a disk, which satisfies some combinatorial conditions. Postnikov's boundary measurement map takes the space of positive edge weights of a plabic graph GG to a positroid cell in some totally nonnegative Grassmannian. In this note, we investigate plabic graphs which are symmetric about a line of reflection, up to reversing the colors of vertices. These symmetric plabic graphs arise naturally in the study of total positivity for the Lagrangian Grassmannian. We characterize various combinatorial objects associated with symmetric plabic graphs, and describe the subset of a Grassmannian which can be realized by symmetric weightings of symmetric plabic graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1510.02122,
  title  = {Combinatorics of symmetric plabic graphs},
  author = {Rachel Karpman and Yi Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02122},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures Version 2: Corrected typos, fixed references which pointed to the wrong figure

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