The tropical Poincar\'e-Hopf theorem
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Combinatorial aspects of tropical varieties (14T15) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40) Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Products and intersections in homology and cohomology (55N45)
Abstract: We express the beta invariant of a loopless matroid as tropical self-intersection number of the diagonal of its matroid fan (a "local" Poincar'e-Hopf theorem). This provides another example of uncovering the "geometry" of matroids by expressing their invariants in terms of tropicalised geometric constructions. We also prove a global Poincar'e-Hopf theorem and initiate the study of a more general tropical Lefschetz-Hopf trace formula by proving the two special cases of tropical curves and tropical tori.
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