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Mirkovi\'c-Vilonen (MV) polytopes are a class of generalized permutahedra originating from geometric representation theory. In this paper we study MV polytopes coming from matroid polytopes, flag matroid polytopes, Bruhat interval…

Mirkovic-Vilonen (MV) polytopes have proven to be a useful tool in understanding and unifying many constructions of crystals for finite-type Kac-Moody algebras. These polytopes arise naturally in many places, including the affine…

We introduce a one-skeleton path model for Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes in type A_n. We prove that the Minkowski sum of (MV) polytopes corresponds to the concatenation of one-skeleton paths of this model. We show that MV polytopes induced by…

We describe how Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes arise naturally from the categorification of Lie algebras using Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras. This gives an explicit description of the unique crystal isomorphism between simple representations…

We study the description of the crystal structure on the set of Mirkovi\'c-Vilonen polytopes. Anderson and Mirkovi\'c defined an operator and conjectured that it coincides with the Kashiwara operator. Kamnitzer proved the conjecture for…

Each integrable lowest weight representation of a symmetrizable Kac-Moody Lie algebra g has a crystal in the sense of Kashiwara, which describes its combinatorial properties. For a given g, there is a limit crystal, usually denoted by…

Formulas for the product of an irreducible character $\chi_\lambda$ of a complex Lie group and a deformation of the Weyl denominator as a sum over the crystal $\mathcal{B}(\lambda+\rho)$ go back to Tokuyama. We study the geometry underlying…

Let $G$ be a connected, simply-connected, and almost simple algebraic group, and let $\sigma$ be a Dynkin automorphism on $G$. In this paper, we get a bijection between the set of $\st$-invariant MV cycles (polytopes) for $G$ and the set of…

Mirkovi\'c-Vilonen polytopes encode in a geometrical way the numerical data present in the Kashiwara crystal $B(\infty)$ of a semisimple group $G$. We retrieve these polytopes from the coproduct of the Hopf algebra $\mathscr O(N)$ of…

Fix a weakly minimal (i.e., superstable $U$-rank $1$) structure $\mathcal{M}$. Let $\mathcal{M}^*$ be an expansion by constants for an elementary substructure, and let $A$ be an arbitrary subset of the universe $M$. We show that all…

Antagonistic symmetries of superconducting polygons and their induced multi-vortex states in a homogeneous magnetic field may lead to appearance of antivortices in the vicinity of the superconducting/normal state boundary (where mesoscopic…

In the current paper, we give a quiver theoretical interpretation of Mirkovi\'c-Vilonen polytopes in type $A_n$. As a by-product, we give a new proof of the Anderson-Mirkovi\'c conjecture which describes the explicit forms of the actions of…

Alcoved polytopes are characterized by the property that all facet normal directions are parallel to the roots $e_i-e_j$. Unlike other prominent families of polytopes, like generalized permutahedra, alcoved polytopes are not closed under…

In this paper we analyze the structure of supersymmetric vacua in compactifications of the heterotic string on certain manifolds with SU(3) structure. We first study the effective theories obtained from compactifications on half-flat…

Let $\pi:{\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb R}^d$ be any linear projection, let $A$ be the image of the standard basis. Motivated by Postnikov's study of postitive Grassmannians via plabic graphs and Galashin's connection of plabic graphs to slices…

Minkowski sums cover a wide range of applications in many different fields like algebra, morphing, robotics, mechanical CAD/CAM systems ... This paper deals with sums of polytopes in a n dimensional space provided that both H-representation…

Schubert varieties of hyperplane arrangements, also known as matroid Schubert varieties, play an essential role in the proof of the Dowling-Wilson conjecture and in Kazhdan-Lusztig theory for matroids. We study these varieties as…

We give a construction of MV-polytopes of a complex semisimple algebraic group G in terms of the geometry of the Bott-Samelson variety and the affine building. This is done by using the construction of dense subsets of MV-cycles by Gaussent…

This paper is the second in a series devoted to the study of unstable synthetic deformations through the lens of Malcev theories: certain $\infty$-categorical algebraic theories $\mathcal{P}$ with well-behaved $\infty$-categories…

Let G be a reductive connected algebraic group over the field of complex numbers. Through the geometric Satake equivalence, the fundamental classes of the Mirkovi\'c-Vilonen cycles define a basis in each tensor product of rational…