BALINSKI'S THEOREM FOR SUBSPACE ARRANGEMENTS "Combinatorics and Algebraic Topology of Configurations" (Workshop 2015)
speaker: Bruno Benedetti (Free University Berlin)abstract: A graph is called "R-connected" if between any 2 vertices one can find R vertex-disjoint paths. For example, the graph of a polygon is 2-connected. More generally, Balinski's theorem says that the graph of every d-dimensional polytope is d-connected.
Hartshorne's connectedness theorem says that arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay schemes are connected in codimension one. We show a quantitative version of this result: If X is an arithmetically Gorenstein subspace arrangement, then the dual graph of X is r-connected, where r is precisely the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity. In the very special case when X is the Stanley-Reisner variety of the boundary of a polytope, this recovers Balinski's theorem.
If time permits, we also discuss a very recent extension to dual graphs of projective curves, which is work in progress with Matteo Varbaro and Barbara Bolognese (Northeastern).
timetable:
Tue 17 Feb, 11:30 - 12:10, Aula Dini
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