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Motivated by the notion of the inverse $Z$-polynomial introduced by Ferroni, Matherne, Stevens, and Vecchi, we study the equivariant inverse $Z$-polynomial of a matroid equipped with a finite group. We prove that the coefficients of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alice L. L. Gao , Yun Li , Matthew H. Y. Xie

The inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomial of a matroid was introduced by Gao and Xie, and the inverse $Z$-polynomial of a matroid was introduced by Ferroni, Matherne, Stevens, and Vecchi. In this paper, we study these two polynomials for fan…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Alice L. L. Gao , Ya-Xing Li , Yun Li

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

Motivated by the concepts of the inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial and the equivariant Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial, Proudfoot defined the equivariant inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial for a matroid. In this paper, we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Alice L. L. Gao , Matthew H. Y. Xie , Arthur L. B. Yang

In analogy with the classical Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for Coxeter groups, Elias, Proudfoot and Wakefield introduced the concept of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for matroids. It is known that both the classical Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Alice L. L. Gao , Matthew H. Y. Xie

Following the work of Gao and Xie in [2], we state some properties of the inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid. We also give partial answers to a conjecture that states that regular connected matroids are non-degenerate. We link…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Lorenzo Vecchi

Gao and Xie (2021) conjectured that the inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of any matroid is log-concave. Although the inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial may not always have only real roots, we conjecture that the Hadamard product of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Matthew H. Y. Xie , Philip B. Zhang

We prove the positivity of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for sparse paving matroids, which are known to be logarithmically almost all matroids, but are conjectured to be almost all matroids. The positivity follows from a remarkably simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Kyungyong Lee , George D. Nasr , Jamie Radcliffe

We associate to every matroid M a polynomial with integer coefficients, which we call the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of M, in analogy with Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials in representation theory. We conjecture that the coefficients are always…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Ben Elias , Nicholas Proudfoot , Max Wakefield

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

Many important invariants for matroids and polymatroids, such as the Tutte polynomial, the Billera-Jia-Reiner quasi-symmetric function, and the invariant $\mathcal G$ introduced by the first author, are valuative. In this paper we construct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Harm Derksen , Alex Fink

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

The Tutte polynomial is a fundamental invariant of graphs and matroids. In this article, we define a generalization of the Tutte polynomial to oriented graphs and regular oriented matroids. To any regular oriented matroid $N$, we associate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Jordan Awan , Olivier Bernardi

The third author introduced the $g$-polynomial $g_M(t)$ of a matroid, a covaluative matroid statistic which is unchanged under series and parallel extension. The $g$-polynomial of a rank $r$ matroid $M$ has the form $g_1 t + g_2 t^2 +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Alex Fink , Kris Shaw , David E Speyer

We introduce the notion of a categorical valuative invariant of polyhedra or matroids, in which alternating sums of numerical invariants are replaced by split exact sequences in an additive category. We provide categorical lifts of a number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Ben Elias , Dane Miyata , Nicholas Proudfoot , Lorenzo Vecchi

We study an operation in matroid theory that allows one to transition a given matroid into another with more bases via relaxing a \emph{stressed subset}. This framework provides a new combinatorial characterization of the class of split…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Luis Ferroni , Benjamin Schröter

We settle three problems from the literature on stable and real zero polynomials and their connection to matroid theory. We disprove the weak real zero amalgamation conjecture by Schweighofer and the second author. We disprove a conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Mario Kummer , David Sawall

We use the equivariant cohomology ring of the permutohedral variety to study matroids and their invariants. Investigating the pushforward of matroid Chern classes defined by A. Berget, C. Eur, H. Spink and D. Tseng to the product space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Mario Bauer , Matěj Doležálek , Magdaléna Mišinová , Semen Słobodianiuk , Julian Weigert

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

We show that f-vectors of matroid complexes of realisable matroids are log-concave. This was conjectured by Mason in 1972. Our proof uses the recent result by Huh and Katz who showed that the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Matthias Lenz
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