Discriminant coamoebas through homology

DOI10.1216/JCA-2013-5-3-413zbMATH Open1312.14086arXiv1201.6649MaRDI QIDQ393100FDOQ393100

Authors: Mikael Passare, Frank Sottile 

Publication date: 16 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Commutative Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Understanding the complement of the coamoeba of a (reduced) A-discriminant is one approach to studying the monodromy of solutions to the corresponding system of A-hypergeometric differential equations. Nilsson and Passare described the structure of the coamoeba and its complement (a zonotope) when the reduced A-discriminant is a function of two variables. Their main result was that the coamoeba and zonotope form a cycle which is equal to the fundamental cycle of the torus, multiplied by the normalized volume of the set A of integer vectors. That proof only worked in dimension two. Here, we use simple ideas from topology to give a new proof of this result in dimension two, one which can be generalized to all dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6649

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Semifields (12K10) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

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