The polytope of all matroids in ranks 2 and 3

Abstract: We give explicit recursive constructions for the polytope of all matroids $Ω{r,n}$ in ranks 2 and 3 for all ground set sizes. This polytope was introduced in recent work by Ferroni and Fink as a tool for checking positivity conjectures for valuative invariants. We supplement our theoretical construction by an implementation, which allows for the computation of $Ω{2,n}$ for $n\leq 33$ and $Ω_{3,n}$ for $n\leq 10$. Further, we compute Schubert expansions for all isomorphism classes of matroids of rank $2$ up to $n = 80$, and for rank $3$ up to $n = 11$.