On powers of Plücker coordinates and representability of arithmetic matroids (Q2280051): Difference between revisions

The first result of this paper is a necessary and sufficient condition of the problem for $k\not=1$: given a vector \(v\) of Plücker coordinates of a point in the real Grassmannian, is the vector obtained by taking the $k$th power of each entry of $v$ again a vector of Plücker coordinates? For $k\not=1$, this is true if and only if the corresponding matroid is regular. The second topic is a related problem for arithmetic matroids. Let $A = (E, rk, m)$ be an arithmetic matroid and let $k\not = 1$ be a non-negative integer. It is proved that if $A$ is representable and the underlying matroid is non-regular, then $A^k = (E, rk, m^k)$ is not representable. This provides a large class of examples of arithmetic matroids that are not representable. On the other hand, if the underlying matroid is regular and an additional condition is satisfied, then $A^k$ is representable. A family of necessary conditions for representability of arithmetic matroids is obtained at last.