The Bergman complex of a matroid and phylogenetic trees

نویسندگان

  • Federico Ardila
  • Caroline J. Klivans
چکیده

We study the Bergman complex B(M) of a matroid M : a polyhedral complex which arises in algebraic geometry, but which we describe purely combinatorially. We prove that a natural subdivision of the Bergman complex of M is a geometric realization of the order complex of its lattice of flats. In addition, we show that the Bergman fan B̃(Kn) of the graphical matroid of the complete graph Kn is homeomorphic to the space of phylogenetic trees Tn.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B

دوره 96  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006