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June Huh and Matthew Stevens conjectured that the Hilbert-Poincar\'e series of the Chow ring of any matroid is a polynomial with only real zeros. We prove this conjecture for the class of uniform matroids. We also prove that the Chow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Petter Brändén , Lorenzo Vecchi

We introduce and develop the theory of UMEL-shellable posets. These are posets equipped with an edge-lexicographical labeling satisfying certain uniformity and monotonicity properties. This framework encompasses classical families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Basile Coron , Luis Ferroni , Shiyue Li

Athanasiadis and Kalampogia-Evangelinou recently conjectured that the chain polynomial of any geometric lattice has only real zeros. We verify this conjecture for families of geometric lattices including perfect matroid designs, Dowling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Petter Brändén , Leonardo Saud Maia Leite

We prove that any lower unitriangular and totally nonnegative matrix gives rise to a family of polynomials with only real zeros. This has consequences for problems in several areas of mathematics. We use it to develop a general theory for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Petter Brändén , Leonardo Saud Maia Leite

We prove that a finite graded simplicial poset with a top element added has real-rooted Chow and augmented Chow polynomials whenever it has a positive $h$-vector. This class of posets include Cohen-Macaulay simplicial posets and in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Elena Hoster , Christian Stump

In this article, we study Chow polynomials of weakly ranked posets and prove the existence of Gorenstein algebras with the K\"ahler package such that their Hilbert--Poincar\'e series agrees with the Chow polynomial. Our statement provides…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Adam Schweitzer , Lorenzo Vecchi

The Chow ring of a matroid (or more generally, atomic latice) is an invariant whose importance was demonstrated by Adiprasito, Huh and Katz, who used it to resolve the long-standing Heron-Rota-Welsh conjecture. Here, we make a detailed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Thomas Hameister , Sujit Rao , Connor Simpson

We study the Hilbert series of four objects arising in the Chow-theoretic and Kazhdan-Lusztig framework of matroids. These are, respectively, the Hilbert series of the Chow ring, the augmented Chow ring, the intersection cohomology module,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Luis Ferroni , Jacob P. Matherne , Matthew Stevens , Lorenzo Vecchi

The coefficients of the chain polynomial of a finite poset enumerate chains in the poset by their number of elements. The chain polynomials of the partition lattices and their standard type $B$ analogues are shown to have only real roots.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Christos A. Athanasiadis , Katerina Kalampogia-Evangelinou

Three decades ago, Stanley and Brenti initiated the study of the Kazhdan--Lusztig--Stanley (KLS) functions, putting on common ground several polynomials appearing in algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, and representation theory. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Luis Ferroni , Jacob P. Matherne , Lorenzo Vecchi

We establish formulas for the Hilbert series of the Chow ring of a polymatroid using arbitrary building sets. For braid matroids and minimal building sets, our results produce new formulas for the Poincar\'e polynomial of the moduli space…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Christopher Eur , Luis Ferroni , Jacob P. Matherne , Roberto Pagaria , Lorenzo Vecchi

The coefficients of the chain polynomial of a finite poset enumerate chains in the poset by their number of elements. It has been a challenging open problem to determine which posets have real-rooted chain polynomials. Two new classes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Christos A. Athanasiadis , Theo Douvropoulos , Katerina Kalampogia-Evangelinou

Using a known recursive formula for the Grothendieck classes of the moduli spaces $\overline{\mathcal M}_{0,n}$, we prove that they satisfy an asymptotic form of ultra-log-concavity as polynomials in the Lefschetz class. We also observe…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Paolo Aluffi , Stephanie Chen , Matilde Marcolli

We study a family of symmetric polynomials that we refer to as the Boolean product polynomials. The motivation for studying these polynomials stems from the computation of the characteristic polynomial of the real matroid spanned by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Louis J. Billera , Sara C. Billey , Vasu Tewari

Motivated by the question of whether Chow polynomials of matroids have only real roots, this article revisits the known relationship between Eulerian polynomials and the Hilbert series of Chow rings of permutohedral varieties. This is done…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Basile Coron

Let $P\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a convex polytope and let $\ell$ be a linear functional which is nonconstant on every edge of $P$. The induced acyclic orientation determines positive and negative Bia{\l}ynicki-Birula type partitions of $P$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Mateusz Michałek , Leonid Monin , Botong Wang

The Chow polynomial of a matroid is a fundamental invariant whose coefficients exhibit strong positivity properties, including $\gamma$-positivity. We interpret the normalized Chow coefficients as a probability distribution and establish…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ronnie Cheng , Wangyang Lin

We introduce and study dual Chow functions associated to kernels in incidence algebras of weakly ranked posets. Given a kernel, its dual Chow function is defined as the Chow function associated to the sign-twisted reverse kernel. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Giovanni Caiolo , Luis Ferroni , Elena Hoster

Boris Shapiro and Michael Shapiro have a conjecture concerning the Schubert calculus and real enumerative geometry and which would give infinitely many families of zero-dimensional systems of real polynomials (including families of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Sottile

Let $P$ be a finite partially ordered set. In a recent series of works, Proudfoot introduced the notion of $Z$-polynomials associated with $P$-kernels, providing a unified framework for various intersection cohomology Poincar\'e polynomials…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Luis Ferroni , Roberto Riccardi
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