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We use techniques from Gromov-Witten theory to construct new invariants of matroids taking value in the Chow groups of spaces of rational curves in the permutohedral toric variety. When the matroid is realizable by a complex hyperplane…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Dhruv Ranganathan , Jeremy Usatine

We introduce and study equivariant Hilbert series of ideals in polynomial rings in countably many variables that are invariant under a suitable action of a symmetric group or the monoid $Inc(\mathbb{N})$ of strictly increasing functions.…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Uwe Nagel , Tim Roemer

Equivariant Ehrhart theory generalizes the study of lattice point enumeration to also account for the symmetries of a polytope under a linear group action. We present a catalogue of techniques with applications in this field, including…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Sophia Elia , Donghyun Kim , Mariel Supina

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

We introduce the notion of a matroid M over a commutative ring R, assigning to every subset of the ground set an R-module according to some axioms. When R is a field, we recover matroids. When R=$\mathbb{Z}$, and when R is a DVR, we get…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Alex Fink , Luca Moci

From the configuration of a matroid (which records the size and rank of the cyclic flats and the containments among them, but not the sets), one can compute several much-studied matroid invariants, including the Tutte polynomial and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin

Motivated by the $Z$-polynomials of matroids, Ferroni, Matherne, Stevens, and Vecchi introduced the inverse $Z$-polynomial of a matroid. In this paper, we prove several fundamental properties of the inverse $Z$-polynomial, including…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Alice L. L. Gao , Xuan Ruan , Matthew H. Y. Xie

In this paper we investigate the Ehrhart Theory of the independence matroid polytope of uniform matroids. It is proved that these polytopes have an Ehrhart polynomial with positive coefficients. To do that, we prove that indeed all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Luis Ferroni

The classical volume polynomial in algebraic geometry measures the degrees of ample (and nef) divisors on a smooth projective variety. We introduce an analogous volume polynomial for matroids, and give a complete combinatorial formula. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Christopher Eur

A new method of constructing translation invariant continuous valuations on convex subsets of the quaternionic space $\HH^n$ is presented. In particular new examples of $Sp(n)Sp(1)$-invariant translation invariant continuous valuations are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Semyon Alesker

We define the equivariant Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid equipped with a group of symmetries, generalizing the nonequivariant case. We compute this invariant for arbitrary uniform matroids and for braid matroids of small rank.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Katie Gedeon , Nicholas Proudfoot , Ben Young

We introduce the Z-polynomial of a matroid, which we define in terms of the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial. We then exploit a symmetry of the Z-polynomial to derive a new recursion for Kazhdan-Lusztig coefficients. We solve this recursion,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Nicholas Proudfoot , Ben Young , Yuan Xu

A new isomorphism invariant of matroids is introduced, in the form of a quasisymmetric function. This invariant (1) defines a Hopf morphism from the Hopf algebra of matroids to the quasisymmetric functions, which is surjective if one uses…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-01 Louis J. Billera , Ning Jia , Victor Reiner

We study determinantal varieties from conditional independence models with hidden variables, focusing on their irreducible decompositions, dimensions, degrees, and Gr\"obner bases. Each variety encodes a collection of matroids, whose flats…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Per Alexandersson , Yulia Alexandr , Emiliano Liwski , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Pardis Semnani

This is a chapter destined for the book "Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial". The chapter is a composite. The first part is a brief introduction to Orlik-Solomon algebras. The second part sketches the theory of evaluative functions on matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Michael J. Falk , Joseph P. S. Kung

In this paper, we give a formula for the number of lattice points in the dilations of Schubert matroid polytopes. As applications, we obtain the Ehrhart polynomials of uniform and minimal matroids as special cases, and give a recursive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Neil J. Y. Fan , Yao Li

White's conjecture asserts that any two tuples of matroid bases that have the same multi-set union can be transformed from one to another by symmetric exchanges; it also implies that the toric ideals of matroids are generated by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yu-Chuan Yu , Chi Ho Yuen

To a singular knot K with n double points, one can associate a chord diagram with n chords. A chord diagram can also be understood as a 4-regular graph endowed with an oriented Euler circuit. L. Traldi introduced a polynomial invariant for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Alexander Dunaykin , Vyacheslav Zhukov

The multivariate Tutte polynomial (known to physicists as the Potts-model partition function) can be defined on an arbitrary finite graph G, or more generally on an arbitrary matroid M, and encodes much important combinatorial information…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Alan D. Sokal

We introduce and investigate multivariate Tutte polynomials, dichromatic polynomials, subset-corank polynomials, size-corank polynomials, and rank generating polynomials of semimatroids, which generalize the corresponding polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Houshan Fu