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Postnikov constructed a decomposition of a totally nonnegative Grassmannian into positroid cells. We provide combinatorial formulas that allow one to decide which cell a given point belongs to and to determine affine coordinates of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Kelli Talaska

Considered as commutative algebras, cluster algebras can be very unpleasant objects. However, the first author introduced a condition known as "local acyclicity" which implies that cluster algebras behave reasonably. One of the earliest and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Greg Muller , David E. Speyer

Matroid varieties are the closures in the Grassmannian of sets of points defined by specifying which Pl\"ucker coordinates vanish and which don't --- the set of nonvanishing Pl\"ucker coordinates forms a well-studied object called a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Nicolas Ford

Skew shaped positroids (or skew shaped positroid varieties) are certain Richardson varieties in the flag variety that admit a realization as explicit subvarieties of the Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}(k,n)$. They are parametrized by a pair of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Eugene Gorsky , Soyeon Kim , Tonie Scroggin , José Simental

We formulate a higher-rank version of the boundary measurement map for weighted planar bipartite networks in the disk. It sends a network to a linear combination of SL$_r$-webs, and is built upon the r-fold dimer model on the network. When…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Chris Fraser , Thomas Lam , Ian Le

Affine cluster varieties are covered up to codimension 2 by open algebraic tori. We put forth a general conjecture (based on earlier conversation between Vivek Shende and the last author) characterizing their deep locus, i.e. the complement…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Marco Castronovo , Mikhail Gorsky , José Simental , David E Speyer

We study moduli spaces of twisted maps to a smooth pair in arbitrary genus, and give geometric explanations for previously known comparisons between orbifold and logarithmic Gromov--Witten invariants. Namely, we study the space of twisted…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Robert Crumplin

We introduce $3$-dimensional generalizations of Postnikov's plabic graphs and use them to establish cluster structures for type $A$ braid varieties. Our results include known cluster structures on open positroid varieties and double Bruhat…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Pavel Galashin , Thomas Lam , Melissa Sherman-Bennett , David Speyer

We construct the twist automorphism of open Richardson varieties inside the flag variety of a complex semisimple algebraic group. We show that the twist map preserves totally positive parts, and prove a Chamber Ansatz formula for it. Our…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Pavel Galashin , Thomas Lam

While the intersection of the Grassmannian Bruhat decompositions for all coordinate flags is an intractable mess, the intersection of only the {\em cyclic shifts} of one Bruhat decomposition turns out to have many of the good properties of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-24 Allen Knutson , Thomas Lam , David E Speyer

A positroid is a matroid defined by Postnikov to study the cells in the non-negative part of the Grassmannian. They are in bijection with decorated permutations. We show a way to explain contraction and restriction of positroids in terms of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Suho Oh

While the intersection of the Grassmannian Bruhat decompositions for all coordinate flags is an intractable mess, the intersection of only the cyclic shifts of one Bruhat decomposition turns out to have many of the good properties of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-17 Allen Knutson , Thomas Lam , David Speyer

Amalgamation in the totally non-negative part of positroid varieties is equivalent to gluing copies of $Gr^{TP}(1,3)$ and $Gr^{TP}(2,3)$. Lam has proposed to represent amalgamation in positroid varieties by equivalence classes of relations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Simonetta Abenda , Petr G. Grinevich

The main purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual approach to understanding the extension of the Prym map from the space of admissible double covers of stable curves to different toroidal compactifications of the moduli space of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Sebastian Casalaina-Martin , Samuel Grushevsky , Klaus Hulek , Radu Laza

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

Cluster varieties are geometric objects that have recently found applications in several areas of mathematics and mathematical physics. This thesis studies the geometry of a large class of cluster varieties associated to compact oriented…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Dylan G. L. Allegretti

A parametrization of a positroid variety $\Pi$ of dimension $d$ is a regular map $(\mathbb{C}^{\times})^{d} \rightarrow \Pi$ which is birational onto a dense subset of $\Pi$. There are several remarkable combinatorial constructions which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Rachel Karpman

We construct a complex of toric varieties we call the quasisymmetric Grassmannian inside the Grassmannian of $r$-planes in $\mathbb{C}^n$. Each irreducible component is a positroid variety and an $S_n$ translate of a toric Richardson…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Nantel Bergeron , Lucas Gagnon , Hunter Spink , Vasu Tewari

We associate a dimer algebra A to a Postnikov diagram D (in a disk) corresponding to a cluster of minors in the cluster structure of the Grassmannian Gr(k,n). We show that A is isomorphic to the endomorphism algebra of a corresponding…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Karin Baur , Alastair King , Bethany Marsh

The stratification of the Grassmannian by positroid varieties has been the subject of extensive research. Positroid varieties are in bijection with a number of combinatorial objects, including $k$-Bruhat intervals and bounded affine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Rachel Karpman