Topological representations of matroid maps

DOI10.1007/S10801-012-0366-0MaRDI QIDQ1935381zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew T. Stamps

Publication date 15 February 2013

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4152

zbMATH Keywords

matroidsWhitney numbershomotopy colimitsdiagrams of spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oriented matroids in discrete geometry (52C40) Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35)

Abstract: The Topological Representation Theorem for (oriented) matroids states that every (oriented) matroid can be realized as the intersection lattice of an arrangement of codimension one homotopy spheres on a homotopy sphere. In this paper, we use a construction of Engstr"om to show that structure-preserving maps between matroids induce topological mappings between their representations; a result previously known only in the oriented case. Specifically, we show that weak maps induce continuous maps and that the process is a functor from the category of matroids with weak maps to the homotopy category of topological spaces. We also give a new and conceptual proof of a result regarding the Whitney numbers of the first kind of a matroid.

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