There are many explicit combinatorial bijections in the literature between the Jacobian group of a graph Jac(G) and spanning trees. However, most of the known bijections use {\em vertices} of G in some essential way and are inherently "non-matroidal". In this work, we construct a family of explicit and easy-to-describe bijections between the Jacobian group of a regular matroid M and bases of M, many instances of which are new even in the case of graphs. We first describe our family of bijections in a purely combinatorial way in terms of orientations; more specifically, we prove that the Jacobian group of M admits a canonical simply transitive action on the set G(M) of circuit-cocircuit reversal classes of M, and then define a family of combinatorial bijections βσ,σ* between G(M) and bases of M. (Here σ (resp. σ*) is an acyclic signature of the set of circuits (resp. cocircuits) of M.) We then give a geometric interpretation of each such map β = βσ,σ* in terms of zonotopal subdivisions which is used to verify that β is indeed a bijection.
Finally, we give a combinatorial interpretation of lattice points in
the zonotope Z; by passing to dilations we obtain
a new derivation of Stanley's formula linking the Ehrhart polynomial
of Z to the Tutte polynomial of M.
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