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Main Authors: Eur, Christopher, Ferroni, Luis, Matherne, Jacob P., Pagaria, Roberto, Vecchi, Lorenzo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16776
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author Eur, Christopher
Ferroni, Luis
Matherne, Jacob P.
Pagaria, Roberto
Vecchi, Lorenzo
author_facet Eur, Christopher
Ferroni, Luis
Matherne, Jacob P.
Pagaria, Roberto
Vecchi, Lorenzo
contents We establish formulas for the Hilbert series of the Chow ring of a polymatroid using arbitrary building sets. For braid matroids and minimal building sets, our results produce new formulas for the Poincaré polynomial of the moduli space $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1}$ of pointed stable rational curves, and recover several previous results by Keel, Getzler, Manin, and Aluffi--Marcolli--Nascimento. We also use our methods to produce examples of matroids and building sets for which the corresponding Chow ring has Hilbert series with non-log-concave coefficients. This contrasts with the real-rootedness and log-concavity conjectures of Ferroni--Schröter for matroids with maximal building sets, and of Aluffi--Chen--Marcolli for braid matroids with minimal building sets.
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spellingShingle Building sets, Chow rings, and their Hilbert series
Eur, Christopher
Ferroni, Luis
Matherne, Jacob P.
Pagaria, Roberto
Vecchi, Lorenzo
Combinatorics
We establish formulas for the Hilbert series of the Chow ring of a polymatroid using arbitrary building sets. For braid matroids and minimal building sets, our results produce new formulas for the Poincaré polynomial of the moduli space $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1}$ of pointed stable rational curves, and recover several previous results by Keel, Getzler, Manin, and Aluffi--Marcolli--Nascimento. We also use our methods to produce examples of matroids and building sets for which the corresponding Chow ring has Hilbert series with non-log-concave coefficients. This contrasts with the real-rootedness and log-concavity conjectures of Ferroni--Schröter for matroids with maximal building sets, and of Aluffi--Chen--Marcolli for braid matroids with minimal building sets.
title Building sets, Chow rings, and their Hilbert series
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16776