English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient Representation of Lattice Path Matroids

200 papers

We give a simple polynomial time approximation scheme for the weighted matroid matching problem on strongly base orderable matroids. We also show that even the unweighted version of this problem is NP-complete and not in oracle-coNP.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-18 José A. Soto

For minimization problems without 2nd derivative information, methods that estimate Hessian matrices can be very effective. However, conventional techniques generate dense matrices that are prohibitive for large problems. Limited-memory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Johannes J. Brust

There is a one-to-one correspondence between geometric lattices and the intersection lattices of arrangements of homotopy spheres. When the arrangements are essential and fully partitioned, Zaslavsky's enumeration of the cells of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Edward Swartz

We show that the base polytope $P_M$ of any paving matroid $M$ can be systematically obtained from a hypersimplex by slicing off certain subpolytopes, namely base polytopes of lattice path matroids corresponding to panhandle-shaped Ferrers…

We introduce the parametric matroid one-interdiction problem. Given a matroid, each element of its ground set is associated with a weight that depends linearly on a real parameter from a given parameter interval. The goal is to find, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Nils Hausbrandt , Oliver Bachtler , Stefan Ruzika , Luca E. Schäfer

Computing stabilizing and optimal control actions for legged locomotion in real time is difficult due to the nonlinear, hybrid, and high dimensional nature of these robots. The hybrid nature of the system introduces a combination of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zachary Olkin , Aaron D. Ames

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

Folding is emerging as a promising manufacturing process to transform flat materials into functional structures, offering efficiency by reducing the need for welding, gluing, and molding, while minimizing waste and enabling automation.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 João C. Neves , Bernardo R. Marques , Cristóvão S. Dias , Nuno A. M. Araújo

It is possible to write the indicator function of any matroid polytope as an integer combination of indicator functions of Schubert matroid polytopes. In this way, every matroid on $n$ elements of rank $r$ can be thought of as a lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Luis Ferroni , Alex Fink

The concept of a matroid quotient has connections to fundamental questions in the geometry of flag varieties. In previous work, Benedetti and Knauer characterized quotients in the class of lattice path matroids (LPMs) in terms of a simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Carolina Benedetti , Anton Dochtermann , Kolja Knauer , Yupeng Li

We present an output-sensitive algorithm for generating the whole set of flats of a finite matroid. Given a procedure, P, that decides in S_P time steps if a set is independent, the time complexity of the algorithm is O(N^2 M S_P), where N…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-22 A. Montina

Higher-dimensional orthogonal packing problems have a wide range of practical applications, including packing, cutting, and scheduling. Previous efforts for exact algorithms have been unable to avoid structural problems that appear for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Joerg Schepers

This paper studies optimal matroid partitioning problems for various objective functions. In the problem, we are given a finite set $E$ and $k$ weighted matroids $(E, \mathcal{I}_i, w_i)$, $i = 1, \dots, k$, and our task is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Yasushi Kawase , Kei Kimura , Kazuhisa Makino , Hanna Sumita

We extend the notion of matroid representations by matrices over fields and consider new representations of matroids by matrices over finite semirings, more precisely over the boolean and the superboolean semirings. This idea of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-03 Zur Izhakian , John Rhodes

Heavy-light mesons, heavy quarkonium and doubly heavy baryons are briefly discussed. Effective field theories (EFTs) of QCD based on the heavy quark mass expansion 1/m_Q provide a unified framework to describe all three systems. They…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Joan Soto

In this paper, we introduce the problem of Matroid-Constrained Vertex Cover: given a graph with weights on the edges and a matroid imposed on the vertices, our problem is to choose a subset of vertices that is independent in the matroid,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

Finding diverse solutions in combinatorial problems recently has received considerable attention (Baste et al. 2020; Fomin et al. 2020; Hanaka et al. 2021). In this paper we study the following type of problems: given an integer $k$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , See Woo Lee , Yota Otachi

We study the budgeted versions of the well known matching and matroid intersection problems. While both problems admit a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) [Berger et al. (Math. Programming, 2011), Chekuri, Vondrak and Zenklusen…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ilan Doron-Arad , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

The computational efficiency of stochastic simulation algorithms is notoriously limited by the kinetic trapping of the simulated trajectories within low energy basins. Here we present a new method that overcomes kinetic trapping while still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-08 Manuel Athènes , Vasily V. Bulatov

In this article we make several contributions of independent interest. First, we introduce the notion of stressed hyperplane of a matroid, essentially a type of cyclic flat that permits to transition from a given matroid into another with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Luis Ferroni , George D. Nasr , Lorenzo Vecchi