107 research outputs found
On the Number of Circuit-cocircuit Reversal Classes of an Oriented Matroid
The first author introduced the circuit-cocircuit reversal system of an
oriented matroid, and showed that when the underlying matroid is regular, the
cardinalities of such system and its variations are equal to special
evaluations of the Tutte polynomial (e.g., the total number of
circuit-cocircuit reversal classes equals , the number of bases of
the matroid). By relating these classes to activity classes studied by the
first author and Las Vergnas, we give an alternative proof of the above results
and a proof of the converse statements that these equalities fail whenever the
underlying matroid is not regular. Hence we extend the above results to an
equivalence of matroidal properties, thereby giving a new characterization of
regular matroids.Comment: 7 pages. v2: simplified proof, with new statements concerning other
special evaluations of the Tutte polynomia
Reducibility of the intersections of components of a Springer fiber
The description of the intersections of components of a Springer fiber is a
very complex problem. Up to now only two cases have been described completely.
The complete picture for the hook case has been obtained by
N. Spaltenstein and J.A. Vargas, and for two-row case by
F.Y.C. Fung. They have shown in particular that the intersection of a pair of
components of a Springer fiber is either irreducible or empty. In both cases
all the components are non-singular and the irreducibility of the intersections
is strongly related to the non-singularity. As it has been shown in [8] a
bijection between orbital varieties and components of the corresponding
Springer fiber in GL_n extends to a bijection between the irreducible
components of the intersections of orbital varieties and the irreducible
components of the intersections of components of Springer fiber preserving
their codimensions. Here we use this bijection to compute the intersections of
the irreducible components of Springer fibers for two-column case. In this case
the components are in general singular. As we show the intersection of two
components is non-empty. The main result of the paper is a necessary and
sufficient condition for the intersection of two components of the Springer
fiber to be irreducible in two-column case. The condition is purely
combinatorial. As an application of this characterization, we give first
examples of pairs of componentswith a reducible intersection having components
of different dimensions.Comment: 20 pages; the final version, to appear in Indagationes Mathematica
Practical and Efficient Split Decomposition via Graph-Labelled Trees
Split decomposition of graphs was introduced by Cunningham (under the name
join decomposition) as a generalization of the modular decomposition. This
paper undertakes an investigation into the algorithmic properties of split
decomposition. We do so in the context of graph-labelled trees (GLTs), a new
combinatorial object designed to simplify its consideration. GLTs are used to
derive an incremental characterization of split decomposition, with a simple
combinatorial description, and to explore its properties with respect to
Lexicographic Breadth-First Search (LBFS). Applying the incremental
characterization to an LBFS ordering results in a split decomposition algorithm
that runs in time , where is the inverse Ackermann
function, whose value is smaller than 4 for any practical graph. Compared to
Dahlhaus' linear-time split decomposition algorithm [Dahlhaus'00], which does
not rely on an incremental construction, our algorithm is just as fast in all
but the asymptotic sense and full implementation details are given in this
paper. Also, our algorithm extends to circle graph recognition, whereas no such
extension is known for Dahlhaus' algorithm. The companion paper [Gioan et al.]
uses our algorithm to derive the first sub-quadratic circle graph recognition
algorithm
Short rewriting, and geometric explanations related to the active bijection, for: Extension-lifting bijections for oriented matroids, by S. Backman, F. Santos, C.H. Yuen, arXiv:1904.03562v2 (October 29, 2023)
For an oriented matroid M, and given a generic single element extension and a
generic single element lifting of M, the main result of [1] provides a
bijection between bases of M and certain reorientations of M induced by the
extension-lifting. This note is intended to somehow clarify and precise the
geometric setting for this paper in terms of oriented matroid arrangements and
oriented matroid programming, to describe and prove the main bijective result
in a short simple way, and to show how it consists of combining two direct
bijections and a central bijection, which is the same as a special case -
practically uniform - of the bounded case of the active bijection [5, 6]. (The
relation with the active bijection is addressed in [1] in an indirect and more
complicated way.
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