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Intersection cohomology of the symmetric reciprocal plane

Combinatorics 2015-12-22 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We compute the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of the uniform matroid of rank n-1 on n elements by proving that the i-th coefficient of is equal to the number of ways to choose i non-intersecting chords in an (n-i+1)-gon. We also show that the corresponding intersection cohomology group is isomorphic to the irreducible representation of the symmetric group associated to the partition [n-2i,2,...,2].

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@article{arxiv.1504.07348,
  title  = {Intersection cohomology of the symmetric reciprocal plane},
  author = {Nicholas Proudfoot and Max Wakefield and Benjamin Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07348},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure; small errors corrected after publication