Zonotopal algebra

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2007-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2632v3

Advances in Mathematics, 227 (2011), no.2, 847-894

Mathematics

Commutative Algebra

44 pages; updated to reflect referees' remarks and the developments in the area since the article first appeared on the arXiv

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.aim.2011.02.012

A wealth of geometric and combinatorial properties of a given linear endomorphism $X$ of $\R^N$ is captured in the study of its associated zonotope $Z(X)$, and, by duality, its associated hyperplane arrangement ${\cal H}(X)$. This well-known line of study is particularly interesting in case $n\eqbd\rank X \ll N$. We enhance this study to an algebraic level, and associate $X$ with three algebraic structures, referred herein as {\it external, central, and internal.} Each algebraic structure is given in terms of a pair of homogeneous polynomial ideals in $n$ variables that are dual to each other: one encodes properties of the arrangement ${\cal H}(X)$, while the other encodes by duality properties of the zonotope $Z(X)$. The algebraic structures are defined purely in terms of the combinatorial structure of $X$, but are subsequently proved to be equally obtainable by applying suitable algebro-analytic operations to either of $Z(X)$ or ${\cal H}(X)$. The theory is universal in the sense that it requires no assumptions on the map $X$ (the only exception being that the algebro-analytic operations on $Z(X)$ yield sought-for results only in case $X$ is unimodular), and provides new tools that can be used in enumerative combinatorics, graph theory, representation theory, polytope geometry, and approximation theory.

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