On the singular structure of graph hypersurfaces

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2010.V4.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ719221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Patterson

Publication date 10 October 2011

Published in Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5166

zbMATH Keywords

configuration polynomialgraph polynomialsingular loci

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph polynomials (05C31) Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30)

Abstract: We show that the singular loci of graph hypersurfaces correspond set-theoretically to their rank loci. The proof holds for all configuration hypersurfaces and depends only on linear algebra. To make the conclusion for the second graph hypersurface, we prove that the second graph polynomial is a configuration polynomial. The result indicates that there may be a fruitful interplay between the current research in graph hypersurfaces and Stratified Morse Theory.

Review text

For a graph one can associate its first and second graph polynomials (a.k.a. Shymanzik and Kirchoff polynomials). The vanishing of these polynomials define the graph hypersurfaces. The paper under review studies the singularity loci of graph hypersurfaces. The author considers configuration polynomials, and shows that the multiplicity of a point on a hypersurface defined by a configuration polynomial can be calculated as a corank of a bilinear form. It was known before that the first graph polynomial is a configuration polynomial (cf. first homology of the graph). The author shows that the second graph polynomial is also a configuration polynomial (cf. relative first homology). Hence the author's multiplicity\(=\)corank theorem holds for both polynomials. ``The result indicates that there may be a fruitful interplay between the current research in graph hypersurfaces and Stratified Morse Theory. As an application the paper gives an explicit description of the tangent cone of the graph hypersurfaces.

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