A Gröbner basis for the graph of the reciprocal plane

 13 May 2020
 Mathematics - Research News

Alex Fink, David E. Speyer, Alexander Woo. Source: Journal of Commutative Algebra, Volume 12, Number 1, 77--86.Abstract:
Given the complement of a hyperplane arrangement, let [math] 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  [math] in two different-seeming ways, one due to 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 Gröbner basis argument that the polynomials extracted from the Hilbert series in these two ways agree.