Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Tropical flag varieties"
Speaker: Madeline Brandt, Brown University
Abstract: Flag matroids are combinatorial abstractions of flags of linear subspaces, just as matroids are of linear subspaces. We introduce the flag Dressian as a tropical analogue of the partial flag variety, and give a correspondence between: (a) points on the flag Dressian, (b) valuated flag matroids, (c) flags of projective tropical linear spaces, and (d) coherent flag matroidal subdivisions of the flag matroid polytope. The ideas presented in this talk will be brought to life through examples. This is joint work with Chris Eur and Leon Zhang.
Host: Ben Wormleighton