Tautological bundles of matroids

Abstract: Recent advances in matroid theory via tropical geometry broadly fall into two themes: One concerns the K-theory of Grassmannians, and the other concerns the intersection theory of wonderful compactifications. How do these two themes talk to each other? We introduce the notion of tautological bundles of matroids to unite these two themes. As a result, we give a geometric interpretation of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid that unifies several previous works as its corollaries, deduce new log-concavity statements, and answer few conjectures in the literature. This is an ongoing project with Andrew Berget, Hunter Spink, and Dennis Tseng.

algebraic geometrycombinatorics

Audience: researchers in the topic

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Online Nottingham algebraic geometry seminar

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