{ "id": "0803.1018", "version": "v5", "published": "2008-03-07T03:14:30.000Z", "updated": "2010-10-11T16:55:38.000Z", "title": "Positroids and Schubert matroids", "authors": [ "Suho Oh" ], "comment": "10 pages, 1 figure. v5 simpler proof with improved writing. Submitted", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Postnikov gave a combinatorial description of the cells in a totally-nonnegative Grassmannian. These cells correspond to a special class of matroids called positroid. We prove his conjecture that a positroid is exactly an intersection of permuted Schubert matroids. This leads to a nice combinatorial description of positroids that is easily computable.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v5", "updated": "2010-10-11T16:55:38.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "nice combinatorial description", "special class", "permuted schubert matroids", "postnikov gave", "cells correspond" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0803.1018O" } } }