Tropical vector bundles and matroids
Kiumars Kaveh, Christopher Manon

TL;DR
This paper develops the theory of tropical vector bundles on tropical toric varieties, establishing their properties, characteristic classes, and cohomological behavior, and draws parallels with classical toric vector bundles and matroid theory.
Contribution
It introduces tropical vector bundles on tropical toric varieties, defines their K-theory and characteristic classes, and explores their cohomology, positivity, and splitting properties, connecting to matroid theory.
Findings
Tropical vector bundles can be equipped with characteristic classes similar to classical bundles.
Higher cohomology groups of these bundles vanish under certain conditions.
Tropical vector bundles exhibit splitting properties analogous to Grothendieck's theorem.
Abstract
We introduce a notion of tropical vector bundle on a tropical toric variety which is a tropical analogue of a torus equivariant vector bundle on a toric variety. Alternatively it can be called a toric matroid bundle. We define equivariant -theory and characteristic classes of these bundles. As a particular case, we show that any matroid comes with tautological tropical toric vector bundles over the permutahedral toric variety and the corresponding equivariant -classes and Chern classes recover the tautological classes of matroids constructed in the recent work of Berger-Eur-Spink-Tseng. In analogy with toric vector bundles, we define sheaf of sections and Euler characteristic as well as positivity notions such as global generation, ampleness and nefness for tropical toric vector bundles. Moreover, we prove a vanishing of higher cohomologies result. Finally, we study the splitting…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAlgebraic Geometry and Number Theory · Geometry and complex manifolds · Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
