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We describe a stratification on the double flag variety $G/B^+\times G/B^-$ of a complex semisimple algebraic group $G$ analogous to the Deodhar stratification on the flag variety $G/B^+$, which is a refinement of the stratification into…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-16 Ben Webster , Milen Yakimov

In this extended abstract, we study special tropical prevarieties which we call Coxeter Dressians. They arise from equations capturing a generalization of valuated symmetric basis exchange for Coxeter matroids. In particular, we study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Andreas Gross , Kevin Kuehn , Dante Luber

Tropical varieties play an important role in algebraic geometry. The Bergman complex B(M) and the positive Bergman complex B+(M) of an oriented matroid M generalize to matroids the notions of the tropical variety and positive tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Federico Ardila , Victor Reiner , Lauren Williams

We study a notion of tropical linear series on metric graphs that combines two essential properties of tropicalizations of linear series on algebraic curves: the Baker-Norine rank and the independence rank. Our main results relate the local…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Chih-Wei Chang , Matthew Dupraz , Hernan Iriarte , David Jensen , Dagan Karp , Sam Payne , Jidong Wang

Scaffolds are the one-dimensional skeleta of high-dimensional flag simplicial complexes of nonpositive curvature. They generalize the phylogenetic trees of Trop G(2,n) to arbitrary $k$, drawing together SL(k)-web bases, affine buildings,…

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

We introduce and study various categories of (equivariant) motives of (versal) flag varieties. We relate these categories with certain categories of parabolic (Demazure) modules. We show that the motivic decomposition type of a versal flag…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Baptiste Calmès , Alexander Neshitov , Kirill Zainoulline

Affine Bruhat--Tits buildings are geometric spaces extracting the combinatorics of algebraic groups. The building of $\mathrm{PGL}$ parametrizes flags of subspaces/lattices in or, equivalently, norms on a fixed finite-dimensional vector…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Luca Battistella , Kevin Kuehn , Arne Kuhrs , Martin Ulirsch , Alejandro Vargas

In [GHKK18], Gross-Hacking-Keel-Kontsevich discuss compactifications of cluster varieties from "positive subsets" in the real tropicalization of the mirror. To be more precise, let $\mathfrak{D}$ be the scattering diagram of a cluster…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Man-Wai Cheung , Timothy Magee , Alfredo Nájera Chávez

We apply a theorem of Gel'fand, Goresky, MacPherson, and Serganova about matroid polytopes to study semistability of partial flags relative to a T-linearized ample line bundle of a flag space F = SL(n)/P where T is a maximal torus in SL(n)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benjamin J. Howard

The paper computes the Witt-sheaf cohomology rings of partial flag varieties in type A in terms of the Pontryagin classes of the subquotient bundles. The proof is based on a Leray-Hirsch-type theorem for Witt-sheaf cohomology for the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Thomas Hudson , Ákos K. Matszangosz , Matthias Wendt

The aim of this paper is to discuss a relationship between total positivity and planar directed networks. We show that the inverse boundary problem for these networks is naturally linked with the study of the totally nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Postnikov

We prove a conjecture of Dale Peterson on positivity in the multiplication in the T-equivariant cohomology of the flag variety. The theorem follows from a more general positivity result about the equivariant cohomology of varieties with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Graham

We adopt a formal and algebraic approach of Early \cite{E2} to study the positive tropical Grassmannian $\operatorname{Trop}^+ Gr_{k,n}$. Specifically, we deal with positroid subdivision of hypersimplex induced by translated blades from any…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Gleb A. Koshevoy , Fang Li , Lujun Zhang

The totally nonnegative part of a partial flag variety G/P is known to have a decomposition into semi-algebraic cells. We show that the closure of a cell is again a union of cells and give a combinatorial description of the closure…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konstanze Rietsch

There is a cell decomposition of the nonnegative Grassmannian. For each cell, totally positive bases(TP-bases) is defined as the minimal set of Pl\"ucker variables such that all other nonzero Pl\"ucker variables in the cell can be expressed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-05 Suho OH

We study the nonnegative part B_{\ge 0} of the flag variety of a reductive algebraic group G, as defined by Lusztig. Using positivity properties of the canonical basis it is shown that B_{\ge 0} has an algebraic cell decomposition indexed…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2016-08-30 K. Rietsch

The nonnegative Grassmannian is a cell complex with rich geometric, algebraic, and combinatorial structures. Its study involves interesting combinatorial objects, such as positroids and plabic graphs. Remarkably, the same combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Alexander Postnikov

In this paper we study tropicalization of Grassmannian and linear varieties. In particular, we study the tropical linear spaces cor- responding to the phylogenetic trees. We prove that corresponding to each subtree of the phylogenetic tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Ambedkar Dukkipati , Aritra Sen

A matrix is $k$-nonnegative if all its minors of size $k$ or less are nonnegative. We give a parametrized set of generators and relations for the semigroup of $k$-nonnegative $n\times n$ invertible matrices in two special cases: when $k =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Sunita Chepuri , Neeraja Kulkarni , Joe Suk , Ewin Tang

Matrix factorization problems over various semirings naturally arise in different contexts of modern pure and applied mathematics. These problems are very hard in general and cause computational difficulties in applications. We give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Yaroslav Shitov