Induced Lorentzian and volume polynomials
Combinatorics
2026-05-08 v1
Abstract
Suppose one has a party of people, whose expertise collectively covers topics. Given a subset of the topics, one wishes to form a panel of people from the party such that can be covered by assigning a distinct topic to each panel member with the expertise. We show that the numbers of such panels, as varies, form a Lorentzian polynomial. We achieve this by showing that a certain linear operator on polynomials, which we call the ``inducing operator'' for its connection to induced (poly)matroids, preserves Lorentzian polynomials and realizable volume polynomials.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.05319,
title = {Induced Lorentzian and volume polynomials},
author = {Christopher Eur and Nutan Nepal and Daniel Qin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05319},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures. Comments welcome