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Hyperfield Grassmannians

Combinatorics 2018-11-06 v2 Algebraic Geometry Algebraic Topology Geometric Topology

Abstract

In a recent paper Baker and Bowler introduced matroids over hyperfields, offering a common generalization of matroids, oriented matroids, and linear subspaces of based vector spaces. This paper introduces the notion of a topological hyperfield and explores the generalization of Grassmannians and realization spaces to this context, particularly in relating the (hyper)fields R and C to hyperfields arising in matroid theory and in tropical geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00016,
  title  = {Hyperfield Grassmannians},
  author = {James F. Davis and Laura Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00016},
  year   = {2018}
}

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31 pages. Final version