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In this paper we present a definition of oriented Lagrangian symplectic matroids and their representations. Classical concepts of orientation and this extension may both be thought of as stratifications of thin Schubert cells into unions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard F. Booth , Alexandre V. Borovik , Israel M. Gelfand , Neil White

Based on the notion of vectors and linear subspaces for a matroid, we develop a theory of flats and hyperplane arrangements for T-matroids, where T is a tract. This leads to several cryptomorphic descriptions of T-matroids: in terms of its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Jannis Koulman , Oliver Lorscheid

Speyer recognized that matroids encode the same data as a special class of tropical linear spaces and Shaw interpreted tropically certain basic matroid constructions; additionally, Frenk developed the perspective of tropical linear spaces…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Colin Crowley , Noah Giansiracusa , Joshua Mundinger

We study representations of tropical linear spaces as intersections of tropical hyperplanes of circuits. For several classes of matroids, we describe minimal tropical bases. We also show that every realizable tropical linear space has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Josephine Yu , Debbie S. Yuster

We introduce a notion of tropical vector bundle on a tropical toric variety which is a tropical analogue of a torus equivariant vector bundle on a toric variety. Alternatively it can be called a toric matroid bundle. We define equivariant…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Kiumars Kaveh , Christopher Manon

We give an introduction to Tropical Geometry and prove some results in Tropical Intersection Theory. The first part of this paper is an introduction to tropical geometry aimed at researchers in Algebraic Geometry from the point of view of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Eric Katz

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

We provide a short proof of a conic version of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem for oriented matroids. Holmsen's extension of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem to oriented matroids (Advances in Mathematics, 2016) already encompasses…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Minho Cho , Seunghun Lee , Frédéric Meunier

A consequence of the Folkman-Lawrence topological representation theorem is that the geometric realization of the order complex of the poset of non-zero covectors of a loopless rank $n-1$ oriented matroid on $[n]$ is homeomorphic to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Ulysses Alvarez

The theory of the topological vertex was originally proposed by Aganagic, Klemm, Mari\~no and Vafa as a means to calculate open Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. In this paper, we place the topological vertex within…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Norman Do , Brett Parker

We study the combinatorics of tropical hyperplane arrangements, and their relationship to (classical) hyperplane face monoids. We show that the refinement operation on the faces of a tropical hyperplane arrangement, introduced by Ardila and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Marianne Johnson , Mark Kambites

We give two graph theoretical characterizations of tope graphs of (complexes of) oriented matroids. The first is in terms of excluded partial cube minors, the second is that all antipodal subgraphs are gated. A direct consequence is a third…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Kolja Knauer , Tilen Marc

In classical geometry, a linear space is a space that is closed under linear combinations. In tropical geometry, it has long been a consensus that tropical varieties defined by valuated matroids are the tropical analogue of linear spaces.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Simon Hampe

We explore a combinatorial theory of linear dependency in complex space, "complex matroids", with foundations analogous to those for oriented matroids. We give multiple equivalent axiomatizations of complex matroids, showing that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Laura Anderson , Emanuele Delucchi

The goal of this paper is to introduce a construction of a vector bundle on a tropical variety. When the base is a tropical toric variety these tropicalize toric vector bundles, and are described by the data of a valuated matroid and some…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Bivas Khan , Diane Maclagan

We introduce tropical matroid Schubert varieties, a tropical analogue of arrangement Schubert varieties associated with realisable matroids. We prove that the tropical cohomology ring of the tropical matroid Schubert variety associated to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Seungkyu Lee

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

For a discrete poset $\mathcal X$ McCord proved that the natural map $|{\mathcal X}|\to {\mathcal X}$ from the order complex to the poset equipped with the Up topology is a weak homotopy equivalence. Much later, Zivaljevi\'{c} defined the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Ulysses Alvarez , Ross Geoghegan

Towards building tropical analogues of adic spaces, we study certain spaces of prime congruences as a topological semiring replacement for the space of continuous valuations on a topological ring. This requires building the theory of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Netanel Friedenberg , Kalina Mincheva

In the present paper, we provide a cohomology group as a categorification of the characteristic polynomial of matroids. The construction depends on the ``quasi-representation'' of a matroid. For a certain choice of the quasi-representation,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Takuya Saito , So Yamagata