Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fife, Tara, Mannino, Eline, Rincón, Felipe
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11246
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866918292460929024
author Fife, Tara
Mannino, Eline
Rincón, Felipe
author_facet Fife, Tara
Mannino, Eline
Rincón, Felipe
contents We introduce the rank-nullity ring of a matroid $M$, which is a subring of the Chow ring of the permutahedral toric variety. This subring contains the tautological Chern classes of $M$, a fact we deduce from a highly symmetric formula for these classes. When the matroid $M$ is a uniform matroid, the rank-nullity ring coincides with the subring of $S_n$-invariants of the Chow ring of the permutahedral toric variety. In this case, we compute its Hilbert function explicitly and provide a Gröbner basis for the ideal of relations among its generators.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2601_11246
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle The rank-nullity ring of a matroid
Fife, Tara
Mannino, Eline
Rincón, Felipe
Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
52B40, 14C15, 14C17
We introduce the rank-nullity ring of a matroid $M$, which is a subring of the Chow ring of the permutahedral toric variety. This subring contains the tautological Chern classes of $M$, a fact we deduce from a highly symmetric formula for these classes. When the matroid $M$ is a uniform matroid, the rank-nullity ring coincides with the subring of $S_n$-invariants of the Chow ring of the permutahedral toric variety. In this case, we compute its Hilbert function explicitly and provide a Gröbner basis for the ideal of relations among its generators.
title The rank-nullity ring of a matroid
topic Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
52B40, 14C15, 14C17
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11246