A note on De Concini and Procesi's curious identity.

DOI10.4171/RLM/507MaRDI QIDQ931060zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Graham Denham

Publication date 24 June 2008

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2263

zbMATH Keywords

real hyperplane arrangementsreflection groupsroot systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: We give a short, case-free and combinatorial proof of de Concini and Procesi's formula for the volume of the simplicial cone spanned by the simple roots of any finite root system. The argument presented here also extends their formula to include the non-crystallographic root systems.

Review text

Let \(\Phi\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n\) be a finite root system with base \(\Delta\), and let \(W=W(\Phi)\) denote the reflection group of \(\Phi\). Let \(\sigma_\Delta\) be the positive cone spanned by the set of simple roots \(\Delta\), i.e., \(\sigma_\Delta=\{\sum_{\alpha\in\Delta}c_\alpha\alpha:c_\alpha\in\mathbb{R}_{>0}\) for all \(\alpha\in\Delta\}\). As the main result in this paper the author obtains a new proof of the following theorem of De Concini and Procesi, using a classical result on arrangements of hyperplanes. If \(\Phi\) is crystallographic, the volume of the cone \(\sigma_\Delta\) is \(\nu(\sigma_\Delta)=\prod^n_{i=1}\tfrac{d_i-1}{d_i}\), where \(d_1,\dots,d_n\) are the degrees of \(W\).

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• An identity for the coefficients of characteristic polynomials of hyperplane arrangements
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