A flag Whitney number formula for matroid Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials

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Authors Max D. Wakefield

Publication date 22 February 2018

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/v25i1p22

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zbMATH Keywords

characteristic polynomialincidence algebraKazhdan-Lusztig polynomialmatroidposet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40)

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Summary: For a representation of a matroid the combinatorially defined Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial computes the intersection cohomology of the associated reciprocal plane. However, these polynomials are difficult to compute and there are numerous open conjectures about their structure. For example, it is unknown whether or not the coefficients are non-negative for non-representable matroids. The main result in this note is a combinatorial formula for the coefficients of these matroid Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials in terms of flag Whitney numbers. This formula gives insight into some vanishing behavior of the matroid Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.

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• The algebraic geometry of Kazhdan-Lusztig-Stanley polynomials
• The inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid
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