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We prove that three spaces of importance in topological combinatorics are homeomorphic to closed balls: the totally nonnegative Grassmannian, the compactification of the space of electrical networks, and the cyclically symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Pavel Galashin , Steven N. Karp , Thomas Lam

A gaussoid is a combinatorial structure that encodes independence in probability and statistics, just like matroids encode independence in linear algebra. The gaussoid axioms of Lnenicka and Mat\'us are equivalent to compatibility with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Tobias Boege , Alessio D'Alì , Thomas Kahle , Bernd Sturmfels

We introduce the self-projecting Grassmannian, an irreducible subvariety of the Grassmannian parametrizing linear subspaces that satisfy a generalized self-duality condition. We study its relation to classical moduli spaces, such as the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Alheydis Geiger , Francesca Zaffalon

For Grassmann varieties, we explain how the duality between the Gelfand-Tsetlin polytopes and the Feigin-Fourier-Littelmann-Vinberg polytopes arises from different positive structures.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Xin Fang , Ghislain Fourier

We establish a direct connection between scattering amplitudes in planar four-dimensional theories and a remarkable mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. The central physical idea is to focus on on-shell diagrams as…

The Pl\"ucker positive region $\mathrm{OGr}_+(k,2k)$ of the orthogonal Grassmannian emerged as the positive geometry behind the ABJM scattering amplitudes. In this paper we initiate the study of the positive orthogonal Grassmannian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Yassine El Maazouz , Yelena Mandelshtam

A novel understanding of scattering amplitudes in terms of on-shell diagrams and positive Grassmannian has been recently established for four dimensional Yang-Mills theories and three dimensional Chern-Simons theories of ABJM type. We give…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Joonho Kim , Sangmin Lee

Infinite-dimensional Grassmannian manifold contains moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces of all genera. This well known fact leads to a conjecture that non-perturbative string theory can be formulated in terms of Grassmannian. We present new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Albert Schwarz

There are numerous combinatorial objects associated to a Grassmannian permutation $w_\lambda$ that index cells of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian. We study several of these objects and their $q$-analogues in the case of permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Joel Brewster Lewis , Alejandro H. Morales

We will pursue a way of building up an algebraic structure that involves, in a mathematical abstract way, the well known Grassmann variables. The problem arises when we tried to understand the grassmannian polynomial expansion on the scope…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo M Bentin

We introduce the notion of lattice path matroidal subdivisions, or LPM subdivisions for short, and show that these subdivisions are regular and hence the weight vectors for them lie in the Dressian. This leads us to explore the structure of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Ayush Kumar Tewari , Ahmed Umer Ashraf

We introduce combinatorial objects which are parameterized by the positive part of the tropical Grassmannian $Gr(k,n)$. Our method is to relate the Grassmannian to configuration spaces of flags. By work of the first author, and of Goncharov…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Chris Fraser , Ian Le

Positroids are families of matroids introduced by Postnikov in the study of non-negative Grassmannians. In particular, positroids enumerate a CW decomposition of the totally non-negative Grassmannian. Furthermore, Postnikov has identified…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Susama Agarwala , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Francesca Zaffalon

The hypersimplex $\Delta_{k+1,n}$ is the image of the positive Grassmannian $Gr^{\geq 0}_{k+1,n}$ under the moment map. It is a polytope of dimension $n-1$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Meanwhile, the amplituhedron $\mathcal{A}_{n,k,2}(Z)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Matteo Parisi , Melissa Sherman-Bennett , Lauren Williams

In this article we study adjoint hypersurfaces of geometric objects obtained by intersecting simple polytopes with few facets in $\mathbb{P}^5$ with the Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}(2,4)$. These generalize the positive Grassmannian, which is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Dmitrii Pavlov , Kristian Ranestad

We construct a combinatorial moduli space closely related to the KSV-compactification of the moduli space of bordered marked Riemann surfaces. The open part arises from symmetric metric ribbon graphs. The compactification is obtained by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Ralph Kaufmann , Javier Zúñiga

In tropical algebraic geometry, the solution sets of polynomial equations are piecewise-linear. We introduce the tropical variety of a polynomial ideal, and we identify it with a polyhedral subcomplex of the Grobner fan. The tropical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Speyer , Bernd Sturmfels

Tropical algebraic geometry is the geometry of the tropical semiring (R, min, +). The theory of total positivity is a natural generalization of the study of matrices with all minors positive. In this paper we introduce the totally positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Speyer , Lauren K. Williams

While the positive Grassmannian is deeply understood through the rich combinatorics of plabic graphs and positroid cells, its tropical counterpart, the positive tropical Grassmannian Trop$_{>0}G(k,n)$, has lacked a comparable structural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Nick Early , Thomas Lam

A main conjecture in the field of Positive Geometry states that amplituhedra, which are certain semi-algebraic sets in the Grassmannian, are positive geometries. It is motivated by examples showing that the canonical forms of certain…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Joris Koefler , Dmitrii Pavlov , Rainer Sinn