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Rook matroids were recently introduced by the author and Alexandersson as matroids whose bases arise from certain restricted rook placements on a skew-shaped board. They were shown to be a subclass of transversal matroids and positroids. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Aryaman Jal

We introduce flag positroid pipe dreams (FPPs), whose role in the study of complete flag positroids is analogous to the role of Le-diagrams in the study of positroids. We develop the combinatorics of these diagrams and highlight some of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Williem Rizer , Martha Yip

We give a combinatorial classification for the class of postcritically fixed Newton maps of polynomials as dynamical systems. This lays the foundation for classification results of more general classes of Newton maps. A fundamental…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Kostiantyn Drach , Yauhen Mikulich , Johannes Rückert , Dierk Schleicher

It is well known that the number of non-isomorphic unit interval orders on $[n]$ equals the $n$-th Catalan number. Using work of Skandera and Reed and work of Postnikov, we show that each unit interval order on $[n]$ naturally induces a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Anastasia Chavez , Felix Gotti

We make progress towards characterizing the algebraic matroid of the determinantal variety defined by the minors of fixed size of a matrix of variables. Our main result is a novel family of base sets of the matroid, which characterizes the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Manolis C. Tsakiris

We introduce diagrams and essential sets for signed permutations, extending the analogous notions for ordinary permutations. In particular, we show that the essential set provides a minimal list of rank conditions defining the Schubert…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-28 David Anderson

Positroid subvarieties of complex Grassmannians are the images of the Richardson subvarieties of the full flag varieties under the natural projection map. Positroid varieties admit natural embedding into certain quiver Grassmannians for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Evgeny Feigin

Many families of combinatorial objects have a Hopf monoid structure. Aguiar and Ardila introduced the Hopf monoid of generalized permutahedra and showed that it contains various other notable combinatorial families as Hopf submonoids,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Mariel Supina

Motivation coming from the study of affine Weyl groups, a structure of ranked poset is defined on the set of circular permutations in $S_n$ (that is, $n$-cycles). It is isomorphic to the poset of so-called admitted vectors, and to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Antoine Abram , Nathan Chapelier-Laget , Christophe Reutenauer

For all positive integers $\ell$ and $r$, we determine the maximum number of elements of a simple rank-$r$ positroid without the rank-$2$ uniform matroid $U_{2,\ell+2}$ as a minor, and characterize the matroids with the maximum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Jonathan Boretsky , Zach Walsh

Matroid bundles, introduced by MacPherson, are combinatorial analogues of real vector bundles. This paper sets up the foundations of matroid bundles, and defines a natural transformation from isomorphism classes of real vector bundles to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Laura Anderson , James F. Davis

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

A polytope is called indecomposable if it cannot be expressed nontrivially as a Minkowski sum of other polytopes. Since Gale introduced the concept in 1954, several increasingly strong criteria have been developed to characterize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Arnau Padrol , Germain Poullot

The Catalan numbers form a sequence that counts over 200 combinatorial objects. A remarkable property of the Catalan numbers, which extends to these objects, is its recursive definition; that is, we can determine the $n^{th}$ object from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Jan Tracy Camacho

Answering a question posed by Adam Epstein, we show that the collection of conjugacy classes of polynomials admitting a parabolic fixed point and at most one infinite critical orbit is a set of bounded height in the relevant moduli space.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Patrick Ingram

A positroid is the matroid of a matrix whose maximal minors are all nonnegative. Given a permutation $w$ in $S_n$, the matroid of a generic $n \times n$ matrix whose non-zero entries in row $i$ lie in columns $w(i)$ through $n+i$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Brendan Pawlowski

We prove that every paving matroid that is an excluded minor of interval positroids can be reduced to one of three fundamental families of excluded minors of interval positroids by relaxing dependent hyperplanes. Using this result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Hyungju Park

Polar orderings arose in recent work of Salvetti and the second author on minimal CW-complexes for complexified hyperplane arrangements. We study the combinatorics of these orderings in the classical framework of oriented matroids, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Emanuele Delucchi , Simona Settepanella

We develop certain combinatorial tools for the study of discriminants of general systems of polynomial equations. Applying these tools in a sequel paper, we completely classify components of such discriminants, generalizing the classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Vladislav Pokidkin

The Gelfand-Tsetlin and the Feigin-Fourier-Littelmann-Vinberg polytopes for the Grassmannians are defined, from the perspective of representation theory, to parametrize certain bases for highest weight irreducible modules. These polytopes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Oliver Clarke , Akihiro Higashitani , Fatemeh Mohammadi