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The thagomizer matroid, realized as the graphic matroid of the complete tripartite graph $K_{1,1,n}$, has full automorphism group isomorphic to the hyperoctahedral group whenever $n \ge 2$. In the equivariant setting for this action, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Matthew H. Y. Xie , Philip B. Zhang , Michael X. X. Zhong

We provide a deletion formula for the inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomial and the inverse $Z$-polynomial of a matroid. Our formulas provide analogues to the deletion formulas of Braden--Vysogorets for Kazhdan--Lusztig and $Z$-polynomials.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Tom Braden , Luis Ferroni , Jacob P. Matherne , Nutan Nepal

We provide a combinatorial interpretation of the Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomial of the matroid arising from the braid arrangement of type $\mathrm{A}_{n-1}$, which gives an interpretation of the intersection cohomology Betti numbers of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Luis Ferroni , Matt Larson

In this paper, we focus on the equivariant inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids, a natural family of graphic matroids associated with the complete tripartite graphs $K_{1,1,n}$. These polynomials were introduced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Alice L. L. Gao , Yun Li , Matthew H. Y. Xie

We explain a strategy for a proof of the positivity of all coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig-polynomials for arbitrary Coxeter groups by constructing spaces whose dimensions we conjecture to be these coefficients.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-18 Wolfgang Soergel

The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid was introduced by Elias, Proudfoot, and Wakefield [{\it Adv. Math. 2016}]. Let $U_{m,d}$ denote the uniform matroid of rank $d$ on a set of $m+d$ elements. Gedeon, Proudfoot, and Young [{\it J.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Alice L. L. Gao , Linyuan Lu , Matthew H. Y. Xie , Arthur L. B. Yang , Philip B. Zhang

We introduce the intersection cohomology module of a matroid and prove that it satisfies Poincar\'e duality, the hard Lefschetz theorem, and the Hodge-Riemann relations. As applications, we obtain proofs of Dowling and Wilson's Top-Heavy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Tom Braden , June Huh , Jacob P. Matherne , Nicholas Proudfoot , Botong Wang

We study equivariant Kazhdan--Lusztig (KL) and $Z$-polynomials of matroids. We formulate an equivariant generalization of a result by Braden and Vysogorets that relates the equivariant KL and $Z$-polynomials of a matroid with those of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Luis Ferroni , Jacob P. Matherne , Lorenzo Vecchi

We introduce thagomizer matroids and compute the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a rank $n+1$ thagomizer matroid by showing that the coefficient of $t^k$ is equal to the number of Dyck paths of semilength $n$ with $k$ long ascents. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Katie R. Gedeon

In this article we disprove the conjectures asserting the positivity of the coefficients of the Ehrhart polynomial of matroid polytopes by De Loera, Haws and K\"oppe (2007) and of generalized permutohedra by Castillo and Liu (2015). We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Luis Ferroni

Irreducibility results for parabolic induction of representations of the general linear group over a local non-archimedean field can be formulated in terms of Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of type $A$. Spurred by these results and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Erez Lapid

Restricted Whitney numbers of the first kind appear in the combinatorial recursion for the matroid Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. In the special case of braid matroids (the matroid associated to the partition lattice, the complete graph, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Trevor K. Karn , Max D. Wakefield

We give a combinatorial formula for the Ehrhart coefficients of a certain class of weighted multi-hypersimplices. In a special case, where these polytopes coincide with the base polytope of the panhandle matroid $\textrm{Pan}_{k,n-2,n}$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Daniel McGinnis

The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid was introduced by Elias, Proudfoot and Wakefield, whose properties need to be further explored. In this paper we prove that the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of fan matroids coincide with Motzkin…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Linyuan Lu , Matthew H. Y. Xie , Arthur L. B. Yang

Hilbert polynomials have positivity properties under favorable conditions. We establish a similar "K-theoretic positivity" for matroids. As an application, for a multiplicity-free subvariety of a product of projective spaces such that the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Christopher Eur , Matt Larson

We give a new characterization of the peak subalgebra of the algebra of quasisymmetric functions and use this to construct a new basis for this subalgebra. As an application of these results we obtain a combinatorial formula for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Francesco Brenti , Fabrizio Caselli

The Mayhew--Newman--Welsh--Whittle conjecture predicts that asymptotically almost all matroids are sparse paving. We study the gap between paving and sparse paving matroids at the logarithmic scale. Let \(p_n\) be the number of paving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Mohsen Aliabadi

Using Postnikov's Le-diagrams, decorated permutations, and Grassmann necklaces, we classify which positroids are sparse paving matroids. This allows us to enumerate sparse paving positroids, making connections to a known sequence involving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 John Machacek , George D. Nasr

The aim of this work is to prove a conjecture related to the Combinatorial Invariance Conjecture of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, in the parabolic setting, for lower intervals in every arbitrary Coxeter group. This result improves and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Mario Marietti

We consider the Ehrhart polynomial of hypersimplices. It is proved that these polynomials have positive coefficients and we give a combinatorial formula for each of them. This settles a problem posed by Stanley and also proves that uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Luis Ferroni