Grassmann--Plücker functions for orthogonal matroids

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Main Authors: Ding, Changxin, Kim, Donggyu
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Published: 2026
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author Ding, Changxin
Kim, Donggyu
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Kim, Donggyu
contents We present a new cryptomorphic definition of orthogonal matroids with coefficients using Grassmann--Plücker functions. The equivalence is motivated by Cayley's identities expressing principal and almost-principal minors of a skew-symmetric matrix in terms of its Pfaffians. As a corollary of the new cryptomorphism, we deduce that each component of the orthogonal Grassmannian is parameterized by certain part of the Plücker coordinates.
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spellingShingle Grassmann--Plücker functions for orthogonal matroids
Ding, Changxin
Kim, Donggyu
Combinatorics
We present a new cryptomorphic definition of orthogonal matroids with coefficients using Grassmann--Plücker functions. The equivalence is motivated by Cayley's identities expressing principal and almost-principal minors of a skew-symmetric matrix in terms of its Pfaffians. As a corollary of the new cryptomorphism, we deduce that each component of the orthogonal Grassmannian is parameterized by certain part of the Plücker coordinates.
title Grassmann--Plücker functions for orthogonal matroids
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19830