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Big Varchenko-Gelfand rings and orbit harmonics

Combinatorics 2026-03-20 v3

Abstract

Let M\mathscr{M} be a conditional oriented matroid. We define a graded algebra VG^M\widehat{\mathscr{VG}}_\mathscr{M} with vector space dimension given by the number of covectors in M\mathscr{M} which admits a distinguished filtration indexed by the poset L(M)\mathscr{L}(\mathscr{M}) of flats of M\mathscr{M}. The subquotients of this filtration are isomorphic to graded Varchenko-Gelfand rings of contractions of M\mathscr{M}, so we call VG^M\widehat{\mathscr{VG}}_\mathscr{M} the {\em graded big Varchenko-Gelfand ring of M\mathscr{M}.} We describe a no broken circuit type basis of VG^M\widehat{\mathscr{VG}}_\mathscr{M} and study its equivariant structure under the action of Aut(M)\mathrm{Aut}(\mathscr{M}). Our key technique is the orbit harmonics deformation which encodes VG^M\widehat{\mathscr{VG}}_\mathscr{M} (as well as the classical Varchenko-Gelfand ring) in terms of a locus of points.

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@article{arxiv.2508.18602,
  title  = {Big Varchenko-Gelfand rings and orbit harmonics},
  author = {Brendon Rhoades},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18602},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

26 pages. Prop. 5.1 and Example 5.2 added in this version

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