The $cd$-index of base polytopes for connected split matroids
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| author | Faustini, Tommaso Vargas, Alejandro |
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| contents | We compute the $cd$-index $Ψ_{cd}$ of matroid base polytopes $\mathscr{P}(M)$ for a large family of matroids $M$. The $cd$-index is a polynomial in two non-commutative variables that compactly encodes the count of face flags $\mathcal{F} = \{σ_1 \subset \dots \subset σ_s \}$ with prescribed $\dim σ_i = d_i$. This comprises the $f$-vector of $\mathscr{P}(M)$, which recently Ferroni and Schröter treated as an almost-valuative invariant; i.e. a valuative part plus an error term. We initiate a similar program for $Ψ_{cd}(\mathscr{P}(M))$ and show that for an elementary split matroid $M$ the error term in the computation of $Ψ_{cd}(\mathscr{P}(M))$ surprisingly depends only on modular pairs of cyclic flats.
This allows us to implement computations requiring only the counts $λ(r,h)$ and $μ(α,β,a,b)$ of cyclic flats and modular pairs of cyclic flats, respectively, that fulfill some rank and cardinality conditions. We illustrate the methods with sparse paving matroids. |
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| spellingShingle | The $cd$-index of base polytopes for connected split matroids Faustini, Tommaso Vargas, Alejandro Combinatorics 52B05, 52B40, 05B35 We compute the $cd$-index $Ψ_{cd}$ of matroid base polytopes $\mathscr{P}(M)$ for a large family of matroids $M$. The $cd$-index is a polynomial in two non-commutative variables that compactly encodes the count of face flags $\mathcal{F} = \{σ_1 \subset \dots \subset σ_s \}$ with prescribed $\dim σ_i = d_i$. This comprises the $f$-vector of $\mathscr{P}(M)$, which recently Ferroni and Schröter treated as an almost-valuative invariant; i.e. a valuative part plus an error term. We initiate a similar program for $Ψ_{cd}(\mathscr{P}(M))$ and show that for an elementary split matroid $M$ the error term in the computation of $Ψ_{cd}(\mathscr{P}(M))$ surprisingly depends only on modular pairs of cyclic flats. This allows us to implement computations requiring only the counts $λ(r,h)$ and $μ(α,β,a,b)$ of cyclic flats and modular pairs of cyclic flats, respectively, that fulfill some rank and cardinality conditions. We illustrate the methods with sparse paving matroids. |
| title | The $cd$-index of base polytopes for connected split matroids |
| topic | Combinatorics 52B05, 52B40, 05B35 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05250 |