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The geometry of ranked symplectic matroids

2024/11/14 by Or Raz, Raz, Or
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Graph Theory Research #Combinatorics (math.CO) #Commutative Algebra and Its Applications #FOS: Mathematics #Polynomial and algebraic computation

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.09396

openalex publication_date 2024/11/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of my paper "Lattices of flats for symplectic matroids". We explore geometric constructions originating from the lattice of flats of ranked symplectic matroids. We observe that a ranked symplectic matroid always sits between two ordinary matroids and use this fact to prove that it has many of the same properties of ordinary matroids. We compute the dimension of its order complex using its Möbius function, We show that its matroid polytope is geometrically defined using its flats and connected to its Bergman fan. We finish by highlighting differences between its toric variety and the toric variety of an ordinary matroid, and give a partial proof of Mason's conjecture for ranked symplectic matroids.

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