On defectivity of families of full-dimensional point configurations

DOI10.1090/BPROC/46zbMATH Open1442.14164arXiv1801.07467OpenAlexW3024017443MaRDI QIDQ5113800FDOQ5113800

Authors: Christopher Borger, Benjamin Nill 

Publication date: 17 June 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The mixed discriminant of a family of point configurations can be considered as a generalization of the $A$-discriminant of one Laurent polynomial to a family of Laurent polynomials. Generalizing the concept of defectivity, a family of point configurations is called defective if the mixed discriminant is trivial. Using a recent criterion by Furukawa and Ito we give a necessary condition for defectivity of a family in the case that all point configurations are full-dimensional. This implies the conjecture by Cattani, Cueto, Dickenstein, Di Rocco and Sturmfels that a family of $n$ full-dimensional configurations in $mathbb{Z}^n$ is defective if and only if the mixed volume of the convex hulls of its elements is $1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07467

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice polytopesCayley polytopesmixed discriminantdefectivity\(A\)-discriminant

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) Mixed volumes and related topics in convex geometry (52A39) Solving polynomial systems; resultants (13P15)

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