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Lattice of Integer Flows and the Poset of Strongly Connected Orientations for Regular Matroids

Combinatorics 2023-07-04 v2

Abstract

A 2010 result of Amini provides a way to extract information about the structure of the graph from the geometry of the Voronoi polytope of the lattice of integer flows (which determines the graph up to two-isomorphism). Specifically, Amini shows that the face poset of the Voronoi polytope is isomorphic to the poset of strongly connected orientations of subgraphs. This answers a question raised by Caporaso and Viviani, and Amini also proves a dual result for integer cuts. In this paper we generalise Amini's result to regular matroids; in this context the theorem for integer cuts becomes a direct consequence of the theorem for integer flows, by making duality explicit as matroid duality.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13265,
  title  = {Lattice of Integer Flows and the Poset of Strongly Connected Orientations for Regular Matroids},
  author = {Zsuzsanna Dancso and Jongmin Lim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13265},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages, minor edits to improve clarity, two references added