Annihilators of Ideals of Exterior Algebras
Combinatorics
2007-05-23 v1 Rings and Algebras
Abstract
The Orlik-Solomon algebra A of a matroid is isomorphic to the quotient of an exterior algebra E by a defining ideal I. We find an explicit presentation of the annihilator ideal of I or, equivalently, the E-module dual to A. As an application of that we provide a necessary, combinatorial condition for the algebra A to be quadratic. We show that this is stronger than matroid being line-closed thereby resolving (negatively) a conjecture by Falk. We also show that our condition is not sufficient for the quadraticity.
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@article{arxiv.math/0010168,
title = {Annihilators of Ideals of Exterior Algebras},
author = {Graham Denham and Sergey Yuzvinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0010168},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
18 pages; submitted to Advances in Applied Math