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Induced Lorentzian and volume polynomials

Combinatorics 2026-05-08 v1

Abstract

Suppose one has a party of mm people, whose expertise collectively covers nn topics. Given a subset TT of the topics, one wishes to form a panel of T|T| people from the party such that TT can be covered by assigning a distinct topic to each panel member with the expertise. We show that the numbers of such panels, as TT varies, form a Lorentzian polynomial. We achieve this by showing that a certain linear operator on polynomials, which we call the ``inducing operator'' for its connection to induced (poly)matroids, preserves Lorentzian polynomials and realizable volume polynomials.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.05319,
  title  = {Induced Lorentzian and volume polynomials},
  author = {Christopher Eur and Nutan Nepal and Daniel Qin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05319},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures. Comments welcome

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