Syzygies of oriented matroids

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Abstract: We construct minimal cellular resolutions of squarefree monomial ideals arising from hyperplane arrangements, matroids and oriented matroids. These are Stanley-Reisner ideals of complexes of independent sets, and of triangulations of Lawrence matroid polytopes. Our resolution provides a cellular realization of Stanley's formula for their Betti numbers. For unimodular matroids our resolutions are related to hyperplane arrangements on tori, and we recover the resolutions constructed by Bayer, Popescu and Sturmfels. We resolve the combinatorial problems posed in their paper by computing Mobius invariants of graphic and cographic arrangements in terms of Hermite polynomials.


The papers starts with an exhibition of a minimal free resolution of the (oriented or unoriented) matroid ideal associated to a given hyperplane arrangement in real affine space. To this aim, cellular resolutions from hyperplane arrangements are studied. Next this method is applied to arbitrary matroid ideals. It turns out that the graded Betti numbers of oriented matroid ideals can only take the values \(0\) and \(1\) and that their quotient rings are Cohen-Macaulay. The paper finishes with some rather technical results about the cocharacteristic polynomial of unimodular toric arrangements which may be given by graphic or cographic matroids.




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