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Facial structures of lattice path matroid polytopes. (English) Zbl 1430.52016

Summary: A lattice path matroid is a transversal matroid corresponding to a pair of lattice paths on the plane. A matroid base polytope is the polytope whose vertices are the incidence vectors of the bases of the given matroid. In this paper, we study the facial structures of matroid base polytopes corresponding to lattice path matroids. In the case of a border strip, we show that all faces of a lattice path matroid polytope can be described by certain subsets of deletions, contractions, and direct sums. In particular, we express them in terms of the lattice path obtained from the border strip. Subsequently, the facial structures of a lattice path matroid polytope for a general case are explained in terms of certain tilings of skew shapes inside the given region.

MSC:

52B40 Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.)
05B35 Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices
05A15 Exact enumeration problems, generating functions
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