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Inspired by Kontsevich's graphic orbifold Euler characteristic we define a virtual Euler characteristic for any finite set of isomorphism classes of matroids of rank $r$. Our main result provides a simple formula for the virtual Euler…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Madeline Brandt , Juliette Bruce , Daniel Corey

Wei's celebrated Duality Theorem is generalized in several ways, expressed as duality theorems for linear codes over division rings and, more generally, duality theorems for matroids. These results are further generalized, resulting in two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Thomas Britz , Bård Heiseldel , Trygve Johnsen , Dillon Mayhew , Keisuke Shiromoto

In this paper, we introduce the terminology of matroids into the study of Zariski-pairs related to rational elliptic surfaces, aiming to simplify the presentation and arguments involved. As an application, we provide new examples of Zariski…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Ryutaro Sato , Shinzo Bannai

We use the equivariant cohomology ring of the permutohedral variety to study matroids and their invariants. Investigating the pushforward of matroid Chern classes defined by A. Berget, C. Eur, H. Spink and D. Tseng to the product space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Mario Bauer , Matěj Doležálek , Magdaléna Mišinová , Semen Słobodianiuk , Julian Weigert

We show that every lattice path matroid of rank at least two has a quite simple coline, also known as a positive coline. Therefore every orientation of a lattice path matroid is 3-colorable with respect to the chromatic number of oriented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Immanuel Albrecht , Winfried Hochstättler

We show that every poset P=(P,\le) satisfying the Ascending Chain Condition can be isomorphically embedded into the poset of all mappings from P to the set A(P) of all antichains of P equipped with a certain partial order relation. This…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ivan Chajda , Helmut Länger

Polymatroids are combinatorial abstractions of subspace arrangements in the same way that matroids are combinatorial abstractions of hyperplane arrangements. By introducing augmented Chow rings of polymatroids, modeled after augmented…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Christopher Eur , Matt Larson

We study a notion of cross ratios on metric graphs and electrical networks. We show that several known results immediately follow from the basic properties of cross ratios. We show that the projection matrices of Kirchhoff have nice (and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Robin de Jong , Farbod Shokrieh

Quantum lattice models describe a wide array of physical systems, and are a canonical way to numerically solve the Schrodinger equation. Here we prove the potential inversion theorem, which says that wavefunction probability in these models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Alec Shelley , Henry Hunt

Huh-Stevens and Ferroni-Schr\"oter independently conjectured that Hilbert-Poincar\'e series of Chow rings of geometric lattices have only real zeros. Ferroni, Matherne and the second author extended this conjecture to Chow polynomials of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Petter Brändén , Lorenzo Vecchi

Fleischner introduced the idea of splitting a vertex of degree at least three in a connected graph and used the operation to characterize Eulerian graphs. Raghunathan et. al. extended the splitting operation from graphs to binary matroids.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-28 S. B. Dhotre , P. P. Malavadkar

In analogy with the classical Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for Coxeter groups, Elias, Proudfoot and Wakefield introduced the concept of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for matroids. It is known that both the classical Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Alice L. L. Gao , Matthew H. Y. Xie

The standard parametrization of totally non-negative Grassmannians was obtained by A. Postnikov [45] introducing the boundary measurement map in terms of discrete path integration on planar bicolored (plabic) graphs in the disk. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Simonetta Abenda , Petr G. Grinevich

In this note we introduce a family of polynomials on a matroid derived from chain Tutte polynomials which generalize the classic and ubiquitous characteristic polynomial. We show that the coefficients of these polynomials alternate and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Gary Lazzaro , Max Wakefield , Jason Weiss

Lattice path matroids and bicircular matroids are two well-known classes of transversal matroids. In the seminal work of Bonin and de Mier about structural properties of lattice path matroids, the authors claimed that lattice path matroids…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , Winfried Hochstättler

An effective theory of the excited states of positronium is derived and some of its consequences are explored. At large physical separation, the binding of the electron and positron is assumed to be described completely by QED, whereas all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-07 David M. Jacobs

Symmetric powers of matroids were first introduced by Lovasz and Mason in the 1970s, where it was shown that not all matroids admit higher symmetric powers. Since these initial findings, the study of matroid symmetric powers has remained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Nicholas Anderson

Although algebraic matroids were discovered in the 1930s, interest in them was largely dormant until their recent use in applications of algebraic geometry. Because nonlinear algebra is computationally challenging, it is easier to work with…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Zvi Rosen , Jessica Sidman , Louis Theran

Subject to announced results by Geelen, Gerards, and Whittle, we completely characterize the highly connected members of the classes of dyadic, near-regular, and sixth-root-of-unity matroids.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Ben Clark , Kevin Grace , James Oxley , Stefan H. M. van Zwam

We characterize the quotients among lattice path matroids (LPMs) in terms of their diagrams. This characterization allows us to show that ordering LPMs by quotients yields a graded poset, whose rank polynomial has the Narayana numbers as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Carolina Benedetti , Kolja Knauer