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A Gr\"obner basis for the graph of the reciprocal plane

Commutative Algebra 2017-03-20 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Given the complement of a hyperplane arrangement, let Γ\Gamma be the closure of the graph of the map inverting each of its defining linear forms. The characteristic polynomial manifests itself in the Hilbert series of Γ\Gamma in two different-seeming ways, one due to Orlik and Terao and the other to Huh and Katz. We define an extension of the no broken circuit complex of a matroid and use it to give a direct Gr\"obner basis argument that the polynomials extracted from the Hilbert series in these two ways agree.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05967,
  title  = {A Gr\"obner basis for the graph of the reciprocal plane},
  author = {Alex Fink and David E Speyer and Alexander Woo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05967},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages