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Splitting Polytopes
A split of a polytope is a (regular) subdivision with exactly two maximal
cells. It turns out that each weight function on the vertices of admits a
unique decomposition as a linear combination of weight functions corresponding
to the splits of (with a split prime remainder). This generalizes a result
of Bandelt and Dress [Adv. Math. 92 (1992)] on the decomposition of finite
metric spaces.
Introducing the concept of compatibility of splits gives rise to a finite
simplicial complex associated with any polytope , the split complex of .
Complete descriptions of the split complexes of all hypersimplices are
obtained. Moreover, it is shown that these complexes arise as subcomplexes of
the tropical (pre-)Grassmannians of Speyer and Sturmfels [Adv. Geom. 4 (2004)].Comment: 25 pages, 7 figures; minor corrections and change
From weakly separated collections to matroid subdivisions
We study arrangements of slightly skewed tropical hyperplanes, called blades
by A. Ocneanu, on the vertices of a hypersimplex , and we
investigate the resulting induced polytopal subdivisions. We show that placing
a blade on a vertex induces an -split matroid subdivision of
, where is the number of cyclic intervals in the
-element subset . We prove that a given collection of -element subsets
is weakly separated, in the sense of the work of Leclerc and Zelevinsky on
quasicommuting families of quantum minors, if and only if the arrangement of
the blade on the corresponding vertices of
induces a matroid (in fact, a positroid) subdivision. In this way we obtain a
compatibility criterion for (planar) multi-splits of a hypersimplex,
generalizing the rule known for 2-splits. We study in an extended example the
case the set of arrangements of weakly separated
vertices of .Comment: 29 pages, 10 figures. v3: added proof of Corollary 3
Excluded minors for the class of split matroids
The class of split matroids arises by putting conditions on the system of
split hyperplanes of the matroid base polytope. It can alternatively be defined
in terms of structural properties of the matroid. We use this structural
description to give an excluded minor characterisation of the class
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