Branched polymers and hyperplane arrangements

DOI10.1007/S00454-013-9499-8MaRDI QIDQ2391839zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karola Mészáros, Alexander Postnikov

Publication date 5 August 2013

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4547

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic polynomialhyperplane arrangementpolymersbranched polymersOrlik-Solomon algebrabraid arrangement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20)

Abstract: We generalize the construction of connected branched polymers and the notion of the volume of the space of connected branched polymers studied by Brydges and Imbrie, and Kenyon and Winkler to any hyperplane arrangement A. The volume of the resulting configuration space of connected branched polymers associated to the hyperplane arrangement A is expressed through the value of the characteristic polynomial of A at 0. We give a more general definition of the space of branched polymers, where we do not require connectivity, and introduce the notion of q-volume for it, which is expressed through the value of the characteristic polynomial of A at -q. Finally, we relate the volume of the space of branched polymers to broken circuits and show that the cohomology ring of the space of branched polymers is isomorphic to the Orlik-Solomon algebra.

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• Branched polymers
• The number and size of branched polymers in high dimensions
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