Contingency tables with variable margins (with an appendix by Pavel Etingof)

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.062MaRDI QIDQ784859zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail Kapranov, Vadim Schechtman

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09793

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zbMATH Keywords

contingency matricesstratificationssymmetric productstotal positivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) General topology of complexes (57Q05) Contingency tables (62H17)

Abstract: Motivated by applications to perverse sheaves, we study combinatorics of two cell decompositions of the symmetric product of the complex line, refining the complex stratification by multiplicities. Contingency matrices, appearing in classical statistics, parametrize the cells of one such decomposition, which has the property of being quasi-regular. The other, more economical, decomposition, goes back to the work of Fox-Neuwirth and Fuchs on the cohomology of braid groups. We give a criterion for a sheaf constructible with respect to the contingency decomposition to be constructible with respect to the complex stratification. We also study a polyhedral ball which we call the stochastihedron and whose boundary is dual to the two-sided Coxeter complex (for the root system $A_n$) introduced by T.K. Petersen. The Appendix by P. Etingof studies enumerative aspects of contingency matrices. In particular, it is proved that the meta-matrix formed by the numbers of contingency matrices of various sizes, is totally positive.

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