Ample Completions of Oriented Matroids and Complexes of Uniform Oriented Matroids

COMs: Complexes of oriented matroids

In his seminal 1983 paper, Jim Lawrence introduced lopsided sets and featured them as asymmetric counterparts of oriented matroids, both sharing the key property of strong elimination. Moreover, symmetry of faces holds in both structures as well as in the so-called affine oriented matroids. These two fundamental properties (formulated for covectors) together lead to the natural notion of “condi...

Fachbereich 3 Mathematik Oriented Matroids Oriented Matroids

Total Polynomials of Uniform Oriented Matroids

In this paper we introduce polynomials associated with uniform oriented matroids whose coefficients enumerate cells in the corresponding arrangements. These polynomials are quite useful in the study of many enumeration problems of combinatorial geometry, such as counting faces of polytopes, counting Radon partitions, counting k-sets, and so forth. We also describe some striking equations relati...

Oriented Matroids

The theory of oriented matroids provides a broad setting in which to model, describe, and analyze combinatorial properties of geometric configurations. Apparently totally different mathematical objects such as point and vector configurations, arrangements of hyperplanes, convex polytopes, directed graphs, and linear programs find a common generalization in the language of oriented matroids. The...

Shellability of Oriented Matroids

In Man82] A. Mandel proved that the maximal cells of an Oriented Matroid poset are B-shellable. Our result shows that the whole Oriented Matroid is shellable, too.