Diagonal form of the Varchenko matrices
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Gao, Yibo
Zhang, YiYu
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February 7, 2018
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Springer US
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Varchenko (Adv Math 97(1):110–144, 1993) defined the Varchenko matrix associated with any real hyperplane arrangement and computed its determinant. In this paper, we show that the Varchenko matrix of a hyperplane arrangement has a diagonal form if and only if it is semigeneral, i.e., without degeneracy. In the case of semigeneral arrangement, we present an explicit computation of the diagonal form via combinatorial arguments and matrix operations, thus giving a combinatorial interpretation of the diagonal entries.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-018-0813-7