2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2020.107094
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Logarithmic concavity for morphisms of matroids

Abstract: Morphisms of matroids are combinatorial abstractions of linear maps and graph homomorphisms. We introduce the notion of basis for morphisms of matroids, and show that its generating function is strongly log-concave. As a consequence, we obtain a generalization of Mason's conjecture on the f -vectors of independent subsets of matroids to arbitrary morphisms of matroids. To establish this, we define multivariate Tutte polynomials of morphisms of matroids, and show that they are Lorentzian in the sense of [BH19] … Show more

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“…We remark that, unlike[BGW03] but in agreement with[EH20] and[CDMS20], we allow repetition of matroids in the sequence of matroids that constitute a flag matroid.…”
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“…We remark that, unlike[BGW03] but in agreement with[EH20] and[CDMS20], we allow repetition of matroids in the sequence of matroids that constitute a flag matroid.…”
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confidence: 84%
“…In this paper, by morphisms of matroids we will mean matroid quotients, as defined below 1 . They generalize the graph homomorphisms, linear maps, and graphs embedded on surfaces; see [EH20] for illustrations of these examples. Definition 2.1.…”
Section: Preliminaries: Flag Matroids and Their K-classes On Flag Var...mentioning
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“…In [1], Lorentzian polynomials were used to give a generalization of Postnikov's formula for the volume of a generalized permutahedron, a beautiful polytope studied extensively in [9]. In [4], Lorentzian polynomials were also used to prove a generalization of Mason's conjecture on the f -vectors of independent subsets of matroids.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Recent years have seen growing interest in categorical aspects of matroids (e.g. see [HP18;EH20]). In a previous paper, the authors (with M. Szczesny) studied the category of finite matroids with strong maps in connection with combinatorial Hopf algebras, and initiated the study of algebraic K-theory for finite matroids.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%