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Matroids describing Bruhat cells

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The aim of this paper is to generalize results of A. V. Borovik and I. M. Gelfand to the case of two-sided small cells, which turns out to be surprisingly much simpler. Bibliography: 16 titles.

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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 319, 2004, pp. 244–260.

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Mitrofanov, M.Y. Matroids describing Bruhat cells. J Math Sci 134, 2572–2579 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0128-4

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