The Varchenko determinant for oriented matroids

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02275-ZzbMATH Open1428.52026OpenAlexW2964111989MaRDI QIDQ2332882FDOQ2332882

Authors: Winfried. Hochstättler, Volkmar Welker 

Publication date: 5 November 2019

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize the Varchenko matrix of a hyperplane arrangement to oriented matroids. We show that the celebrated determinant formula for the Varchenko matrix, first proved by Varchenko, generalizes to oriented matroids. It follows that the determinant only depends on the matroid underlying the oriented matroid and analogous formulas hold for cones in oriented matroids. We follow a proof strategy for the original Varchenko formula first suggested by Denham and Hanlon. Besides several technical lemmas this strategy also requires a topological result on supertopes which is of independent interest. We show that a supertope considered as a subposet of the tope poset has a contractible order complex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07183

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperplane arrangementoriented matroidVarchenko matrixsupertope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oriented matroids in discrete geometry (52C40) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Gale and other diagrams (52B35) Semimodular lattices, geometric lattices (06C10)

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