Matroid connectivity and singularities of configuration hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S11005-020-01352-3MaRDI QIDQ6314211arXivFDO

Authors Graham Denham, Mathias Schulze, Uli Walther

Publication date 18 February 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11005-020-01352-3

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Graph polynomials (05C31) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

arXiv classification

math.ACmath.AGmath.CO

Abstract: Consider a linear realization of a matroid over a field. One associates with it a configuration polynomial and a symmetric bilinear form with linear homogeneous coefficients. The corresponding configuration hypersurface and its non-smooth locus support the respective first and second degeneracy scheme of the bilinear form. We show that these schemes are reduced and describe the effect of matroid connectivity: for (2-)connected matroids, the configuration hypersurface is integral, and the second degeneracy scheme is reduced Cohen-Macaulay of codimension 3. If the matroid is 3-connected, then also the second degeneracy scheme is integral. In the process, we describe the behavior of configuration polynomials, forms and schemes with respect to various matroid constructions.

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