Branched Polymers and Hyperplane Arrangements |
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Authors: | Karola Mészáros Alexander Postnikov |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA 2. Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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Abstract: | We generalize the construction of connected branched polymers and the notion of the volume of the space of connected branched polymers studied by Brydges and Imbrie (Ann Math, 158:1019–1039, 2003), and Kenyon and Winkler (Am Math Mon, 116(7):612–628, 2009) to any central hyperplane arrangement $mathcal{A }$ A . The volume of the resulting configuration space of connected branched polymers associated to the hyperplane arrangement $mathcal{A }$ A is expressed through the value of the characteristic polynomial of $mathcal{A }$ A at 0. We give a more general definition of the space of branched polymers, where we do not require connectivity, and introduce the notion of q-volume for it, which is expressed through the value of the characteristic polynomial of $mathcal{A }$ A at $-q$ ? q . Finally, we relate the volume of the space of branched polymers to broken circuits and show that the cohomology ring of the space of branched polymers is isomorphic to the Orlik–Solomon algebra. |
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