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Federico Ardila ; Carolina Benedetti ; Jeffrey Doker - Matroid Polytopes and Their Volumes

dmtcs:2734 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2009, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AK, 21st International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2009) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2734
Matroid Polytopes and Their VolumesConference paper

Authors: Federico Ardila 1; Carolina Benedetti 2; Jeffrey Doker 3

We express the matroid polytope PM of a matroid M as a signed Minkowski sum of simplices, and obtain a formula for the volume of PM. This gives a combinatorial expression for the degree of an arbitrary torus orbit closure in the Grassmannian Grk,n. We then derive analogous results for the independent set polytope and the associated flag matroid polytope of M. Our proofs are based on a natural extension of Postnikov's theory of generalized permutohedra.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AK, 21st International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2009)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2009
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: Matroid,generalized permutohedron,matroid polytope,Minkowski sum,mixed volume,flag matroid,[MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO],[INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
Funding:
    Source : OpenAIRE Graph
  • Combinatorics in Geometry; Funder: National Science Foundation; Code: 0801075

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