Harmonic algebraic curves and noncrossing partitions
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Publication:878070
DOI10.1007/S00454-006-1283-6zbMATH Open1116.14047arXivmath/0511248OpenAlexW2162120028MaRDI QIDQ878070FDOQ878070
Ted Singer, Jeremy L. Martin, David Savitt
Publication date: 26 April 2007
Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Motivated by Gauss's first proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, we study the topology of harmonic algebraic curves. By the maximum principle, a harmonic curve has no bounded components; its topology is determined by the combinatorial data of a noncrossing matching. Similarly, every complex polynomial gives rise to a related combinatorial object that we call a basketball, consisting of a pair of noncrossing matchings satisfying one additional constraint. We prove that every noncrossing matching arises from some harmonic curve, and deduce from this that every basketball arises from some polynomial.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511248
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