Transversal Valuated Matroids
Speaker:
Jorge Alberto Olarte, Cunef Universidad
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 210
Abstract:
Transversal matroids are a class of matroids that arises from matchings in bipartite graphs. This has a generalization to valuated matroids which arise from tropical minors of a matrix. This is the so-called tropical Stiefel map. Brualdi and Dinolt gave a construction that characterizes all bipartite graphs that represent a given transversal matroid. We show a valuated analogue of this result. In other words, we characterize all matrices with fixed maximal tropical minors. This has several geometric interpretations, such as characterizing tropical hyperplanes with fixed stable intersections.This is joint work with Alex Fink.