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Let $M$ be a matroid. We study the expansions of $M$ mainly to see how the combinatorial properties of $M$ and its expansions are related to each other. It is shown that $M$ is a graphic, binary or a transversal matroid if and only if an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Rahim Rahmati-Asghar

We introduce the Z-polynomial of a matroid, which we define in terms of the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial. We then exploit a symmetry of the Z-polynomial to derive a new recursion for Kazhdan-Lusztig coefficients. We solve this recursion,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Nicholas Proudfoot , Ben Young , Yuan Xu

We adopt a formal and algebraic approach of Early \cite{E2} to study the positive tropical Grassmannian $\operatorname{Trop}^+ Gr_{k,n}$. Specifically, we deal with positroid subdivision of hypersimplex induced by translated blades from any…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Gleb A. Koshevoy , Fang Li , Lujun Zhang

The Rayleigh property is a negative correlation property of electrical networks, which was generalized to matroids by Choe and Wagner. We prove that positroids, a class of matroid introduced by Postnikov which have seen many recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Cameron Marcott

A rational Dyck path of type $(m,d)$ is an increasing unit-step lattice path from $(0,0)$ to $(m,d) \in \mathbb{Z}^2$ that never goes above the diagonal line $y = (d/m)x$. On the other hand, a positroid of rank $d$ on the ground set $[d+m]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Felix Gotti

Motivated by the characterization of the lattice of cyclic flats of a matroid, the convolution of a ranked lattice and a discrete measure is defined, generalizing polymatroid convolution. Using the convolution technique we prove that if a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Laszlo Csirmaz

A positroid is a matroid realized by a matrix such that all maximal minors are non-negative. Positroid polytopes are matroid polytopes of positroids. In particular, they are lattice polytopes. The Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polytope…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Yuhan Jiang

A sweep of a point configuration is any ordered partition induced by a linear functional. Posets of sweeps of planar point configurations were formalized and abstracted by Goodman and Pollack under the theory of allowable sequences of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Arnau Padrol , Eva Philippe

In this article, we study polymatroids that are representable by means of linear restricted rank-metric codes, namely, by subspaces of the space of alternating, symmetric, or Hermitian square matrices endowed with the rank metric. More…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Eimear Byrne , Giovanni Longobardi , and Rocco Trombetti

Wilson loop diagrams are an important tool in studying scattering amplitudes of SYM $N=4$ theory and are known by previous work to be associated to positroids. We characterize the conditions under which two Wilson loop diagrams give the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Susama Agarwala , Siân Fryer , Karen Yeats

The many intricate connections between scattering amplitudes, on-shell diagrams, and the positroid stratification of the Grassmannian has recently been described in great detail. In order to facilitate the exploration of this rich…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

The theory of matroids has been generalized to oriented matroids and, recently, to arithmetic matroids. We want to give a definition of "oriented arithmetic matroid" and prove some properties like the "uniqueness of orientation".

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Roberto Pagaria

A positroid variety is an intersection of cyclically rotated Grassmannian Schubert varieties. Each graded piece of the homogeneous coordinate ring of a positroid variety is the intersection of cyclically rotated (rectangular) Demazure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Thomas Lam

We provide a combinatorial study of split matroids, a class that was motivated by the study of matroid polytopes from a tropical geometry point of view. A nice feature of split matroids is that they generalize paving matroids, while being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Tamás Schwarcz , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

In this paper, we study positroids and its overlap with two classes of matroids: transversal and paving matroids. We exhibit a new class of fundamental transversal matroids and classify the Le-diagram for rank two transversal positroids. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-29 John Machacek , George D. Nasr

Targets are matroids that arise from a nested sequence of flats in a projective geometry. This class of matroids was introduced by Nelson and Nomoto, who found the forbidden induced restrictions for binary targets. This paper generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Matthew Mizell , James Oxley

A matroid is a combinatorial structure that captures and generalizes the algebraic concept of linear independence under a broader and more abstract framework. Matroids are closely related with many other topics in discrete mathematics, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Simran Tinani

We endow the set of isomorphic classes of matroids with a new Hopf algebra structure, in which the coproduct is implemented via the combinatorial operations of restriction and deletion. We also initiate the investigation of dendriform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-29 N. Hoang-Nghia , A. Tanasa , C. Tollu

We provide a short proof of a classical result of Kasteleyn, and prove several variants thereof. One of these results has become key in the parametrization of positroid varieties, and thus deserves the short direct proof which we provide.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-14 David E. Speyer

We prove da Silva's 1987 conjecture that any positively oriented matroid is a positroid; that is, it can be realized by a set of vectors in a real vector space. It follows from this result and a result of the third author that the positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Federico Ardila , Felipe Rincón , Lauren Williams