A geometric interpretation of the characteristic polynomial of reflection arrangements

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10369-4MaRDI QIDQ3581109zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mathias Drton, Caroline Klivans

Publication date 16 August 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2208

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic polynomialCoxeter grouphyperplane arrangementreflection group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Finite partial geometries (general), nets, partial spreads (51E14) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

Abstract: We consider projections of points onto fundamental chambers of finite real reflection groups. Our main result shows that for groups of type $A_n$, $B_n$, and $D_n$, the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of the reflection arrangement are proportional to the spherical volumes of the sets of points that are projected onto faces of a given dimension. We also provide strong evidence that the same connection holds for the exceptional, and thus all, reflection groups. These results naturally extend those of De Concini and Procesi, Stembridge, and Denham which establish the relationship for 0-dimensional projections. This work is also of interest for the field of order-restricted statistical inference, where projections of random points play an important role.

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• polymake
• coxeter

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