Title: Specht Polytopes and Specht Matroids,
Abstract: The generators of the classical Specht module satisfy intricate relations. We
introduce the Specht matroid, which keeps track of these relations, and the
Specht polytope, which also keeps track of convexity relations. We establish
basic facts about the Specht polytope, for example, that the symmetric group
acts transitively on its vertices and irreducibly on its ambient real vector
space. A similar construction builds a matroid and polytope for a tensor
product of Specht modules, giving "Kronecker matroids" and "Kronecker
polytopes" instead of the usual Kronecker coefficients. We dub this process of
upgrading numbers to matroids and polytopes "matroidification," giving two more
examples. In the course of describing these objects, we also give an elementary
account of the construction of Specht modules different from the standard one.
Finally, we provide code to compute with Specht matroids and their Chow rings.