Solvable and Nilpotent Matroids: Realizability and Irreducible Decomposition of Their Associated Varieties

Abstract

We introduce the families of solvable and nilpotent matroids, examining their realization spaces, closures, and associated matroid and circuit varieties. We study their realizability, as well as the irreducible decomposition of their associated matroid and circuit varieties. Additionally, we describe a finite generating set for the corresponding ideals, considered up to radical. We establish sufficient conditions for both the realizability of these matroids and the irreducibility of their associated varieties. Specifically, we establish the realizability and irreducibility of matroid varieties associated with nilpotent matroids and prove the irreducibility of matroid varieties arising from certain classes of solvable paving matroids. Additionally, we analyze the defining polynomial equations of these varieties using Grassmann-Cayley algebra and geometric liftability techniques. Furthermore, we provide a complete generating set for the matroid ideals associated with forest configurations.