Combinatorics \& topology of stratifications of the space of monic polynomials with real coefficients

DOI10.1007/BF03322093zbMATH Open0919.57022arXivmath/9609211MaRDI QIDQ1126967FDOQ1126967

Authors: Boris Shapiro, Volkmar Welker 

Publication date: 31 August 1999

Published in: Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the stratification of the space of monic polynomials with real coefficients according to the number and multiplicities of real zeros. In the first part, for each of these strata we provide a purely combinatorial chain complex calculating (co)homology of its one-point compactification and describe the homotopy type by order complexes of a class of posets of compositions. In the second part, we determine the homotopy type of the one-point compactification of the space of monic polynomials of fixed degree which have only real roots (i.e., hyperbolic polynomials) and at least one root is of multiplicity $k$. More generally, we describe the homotopy type of the one-point compactification of strata in the boundary of the set of hyperbolic polynomials, that are defined via certain restrictions on root multiplicities, by order complexes of posets of compositions. In general, the methods are combinatorial and the topological problems are mostly reduced to the study of partially ordered sets.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9609211

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zbMATH Keywords

stratificationcompositionhomotopy typespace of polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

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