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