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We develop a theory of representations of (discrete) polymatroids over tracts in terms of Pl\"ucker coordinates and suitable Pl\"ucker relations. As special cases, we recover polymatroids themselves as polymatroid representations over the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Matthew Baker , June Huh , Donggyu Kim , Mario Kummer , Oliver Lorscheid

We introduce certain torus-equivariant classes on permutohedral varieties which we call "tautological classes of matroids" as a new geometric framework for studying matroids. Using this framework, we unify and extend many recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Andrew Berget , Christopher Eur , Hunter Spink , Dennis Tseng

A transversal matroid $M$ of rank $r$ on $[n]$ can be associated to a family of binary matrices corresponding to different presentations of $M$. We describe those matrices which arise from unique maximal presentations of size $r$- giving a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Austin Alderete

We present an algebraic framework which simultaneously generalizes the notion of linear subspaces, matroids, valuated matroids, and oriented matroids. We call the resulting objects matroids over hyperfields. In fact, there are (at least)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Matthew Baker , Nathan Bowler

We generalize Baker-Bowler's theory of matroids over tracts to orthogonal matroids, define orthogonal matroids with coefficients in tracts in terms of Wick functions, orthogonal signatures, circuit sets, and orthogonal vector sets, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Tong Jin , Donggyu Kim

Every bi-uniform matroid is representable over all sufficiently large fields. But it is not known exactly over which finite fields they are representable, and the existence of efficient methods to find a representation for every given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Simeon Ball , Carles Padró , Zsuzsa Weiner , Chaoping Xing

We study a matrix-based notion of matroid representation over local commutative rings obtained by replacing linear independence with modular independence. This construction always defines an independence system, though not necessarily a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Koji Imamura , Keisuke Shiromoto

A $q$-matroid is the analogue of a matroid which arises by replacing the finite ground set of a matroid with a finite-dimensional vector space over a finite field. These $q$-matroids are motivated by coding theory as the representable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Sebastian Degen , Lukas Kühne

Matroids over tracts provide an algebraic framework simultaneously generalizing the notions of matroids, oriented matroids, and valuated matroids, presented by Baker and Bowler. Pendavingh partially extended this theory to skew hyperfields…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Ting Su

We introduce the minor-closed, dual-closed class of multi-path matroids. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the Tutte polynomial of a multi-path matroid, we describe their basis activities, and we prove some basic structural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin , Omer Gimenez

Let k be a field of characteristic zero. We consider graded subalgebras A of k[x_1,...,x_m]/(x_1^2,...,x_m^2) generated by d linearly independant linear forms. Representations of matroids over k provide a natural description of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David G. Wagner

In this paper we study the representation theory for certain ``half lattice vertex algebras.'' In particular we construct a large class of irreducible modules for these vertex algebras. We also discuss how the representation theory of these…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen Berman , Chongying Dong , Shaobin Tan

We prove that if M is a vertically 4-connected matroid with a modular flat X of rank at least three, then every representation of M | X over a finite field F extends to a unique F-representation of M. A corollary is that when F has order q,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Jim Geelen , Rohan Kapadia

According to Letourmy and Vendramin, a representation of a skew brace is a pair of representations on the same vector space, one for the additive group and the other for the multiplicative group, that satisfies a certain compatibility…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Yuta Kozakai , Cindy Tsang

We present a new type of equivalence for representable matroids that uses the automorphisms of the underlying matroid. Two $r\times n$ matrices $A$ and $A'$ representing the same matroid $M$ over a field $F$ are {\it geometrically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-16 S. R. Kingan

We present a new direct proof of a topological representation theorem for oriented matroids in the general rank case. Our proof is based on an earlier rank 3 version. It uses hyperline sequences and the generalized Sch{\"o}nflies theorem.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juergen Bokowski , Simon King , Susanne Mock , Ileana Streinu

Inside a product of projective spaces, we try to understand which Chow classes come from irreducible subvarieties. The answer is closely related to the theory of integer polymatroids. The support of a representable class can be (partially)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Federico Castillo , Binglin Li , Naizhen Zhang

We construct C-algebras for a class of surfaces that are inverse images of certain polynomials of arbitrary degree. By using the directed graph associated to a matrix, the representation theory can be understood in terms of ``loop'' and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joakim Arnlind

The notion of thin sums matroids was invented to extend the notion of representability to non-finitary matroids. A matroid is tame if every circuit-cocircuit intersection is finite. We prove that a tame matroid is a thin sums matroid over a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Nathan Bowler , Johannes Carmesin

A fundamental theorem of matroid theory establishes that a transversal matroid is representable over fields of any characteristic. It was proved in 1970 by Piff and Welsh: their proof is elegant and concise and, moveover, constructive.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Carrie Rutherford , Robin Whitty