On the matroid stratification of Grassmann varieties, specialization of coordinates, and a problem of N. White

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(89)90037-6MaRDI QIDQ2277466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernd Sturmfels

Publication date 1989

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(89)90037-6

zbMATH Keywords

Grassmann varietymatroid stratificationrepresentable matroids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15)

Review text

The author constructs a counterexample for the following psoblem of \textit{N. White} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 29, 168-175 (1980)], on representable matroids. Given two representable matroids F and G with \(F\leq G\) in the weak map order, does every coordinatization of G specialize to a coordinatization of F. The author's approach is based on the matroid stratification of the complex Grassmann variety \(G_{n,d}\) recently studied by \textit{I. M. Gelfand}, \textit{R. M. Goresky}, \textit{R. D. MacPherson} and \textit{V. Serganova} [Adv. Math. 63, 301-316 (1987; Zbl 0622.57014)].

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