Modular flats of oriented matroids and poset quasi-fibrations

DOI10.1090/BTRAN/168MaRDI QIDQ6151518zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Mücksch

Publication date 12 February 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14083

zbMATH Keywords

discrete Morse theoryoriented matroidposet quasi-fibrationSalvetti complexsupersolvable lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oriented matroids in discrete geometry (52C40) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Discrete Morse theory and related ideas in manifold topology (57Q70)

Abstract: We study the combinatorics of modular flats of oriented matroids and the topological consequences for their Salvetti complexes. We show that the natural map to the localized Salvetti complex at a modular flat of corank one is what we call a poset quasi-fibration -- a notion derived from Quillen's fundamental Theorem B from algebraic $K$-theory. As a direct consequence, the Salvetti complex of an oriented matroid whose geometric lattice is supersolvable is a $K(pi,1)$-space -- a generalization of the classical result for supersolvable hyperplane arrangements due to Falk, Randell and Terao. Furthermore, the fundamental group of the Salvetti complex of a supersolvable oriented matroid is an iterated semidirect product of finitely generated free groups -- analogous to the realizable case. Our main tools are discrete Morse theory, the shellability of certain subcomplexes of the covector complex of an oriented matroid, a nice combinatorial decomposition of poset fibers of the localization map, and an isomorphism of covector posets associated to modular elements. We provide a simple construction of supersolvable oriented matroids. This gives many non-realizable supersolvable oriented matroids and by our main result aspherical CW-complexes.

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