Technical Report 428-1995

Title

L\^e Numbers of Arrangements and Matroid Identities

Authors

David B. Massey, Rodica Simion, Richard P. Stanley, Dirk Vertigan, and Dominic J. A. Welsh and Günter M. Ziegler

Source

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Classification

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Keywords

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Abstract

We present several new polynomial identities associated with matroids and geometric lattices, and relate them to formulas for the characteristic polynomial and the Tutte polynomial. The identities imply a formula for the L\^e numbers of complex hyperplane arrangements.