Semi-inverted linear spaces and an analogue of the broken circuit complex

DOI10.5802/ALCO.65MaRDI QIDQ2316679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georgy Scholten, Cynthia Vinzant

Publication date 6 August 2019

Published in Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02029

zbMATH Keywords

hyperplane arrangementmatroidreciprocal linear spacesimplicial complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Commutative rings defined by monomial ideals; Stanley-Reisner face rings; simplicial complexes (13F55) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: The image of a linear space under inversion of some coordinates is an affine variety whose structure is governed by an underlying hyperplane arrangement. In this paper, we generalize work by Proudfoot and Speyer to show that circuit polynomials form a universal Groebner basis for the ideal of polynomials vanishing on this variety. The proof relies on degenerations to the Stanley-Reisner ideal of a simplicial complex determined by the underlying matroid. If the linear space is real, then the semi-inverted linear space is also an example of a hyperbolic variety, meaning that all of its intersection points with a large family of linear spaces are real.

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