The Varchenko determinant of an oriented matroid

DOI10.22108/TOC.2021.125990.1780zbMATH Open1488.05050arXiv2003.01970OpenAlexW3166769795MaRDI QIDQ4958098FDOQ4958098

Authors: Hery Randriamaro 

Publication date: 6 September 2021

Abstract: Varchenko introduced in 1993 a distance function on the chambers of a hyperplane arrangement that gave rise to a determinant whose entry in position $(C,D)$ is the distance between the chambers $C$ and $D$, and computed that determinant. In 2017, Aguiar and Mahajan provided a generalization of that distance function, and computed the corresponding determinant. This article extends their distance function to the topes of an oriented matroid, and computes the determinant thus defined. Oriented matroids have the nice property to be abstractions of some mathematical structures including hyperplane and sphere arrangements, polytopes, directed graphs, and even chirality in molecular chemistry. Independently and with another method, Hochst"attler and Welker also computed in 2019 the same determinant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01970

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zbMATH Keywords

distancedeterminantpseudohyperplane arrangement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

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