Current Developments in Mathematics

Volume 2016

Tropical geometry of matroids

Pages: 1 – 46

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CDM.2016.v2016.n1.a1

Author

June Huh (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.)

Abstract

Lecture notes for Current Developments in Mathematics 2016, based on joint work with Karim Adiprasito and Eric Katz. We give a gentle introduction to the main result of “Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries” [arXiv:1511.02888], the Hodge–Riemann relations for matroids, and provide a detailed description of the geometry behind from a tropical point of view.

Published 9 May 2018