Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B83b (2021), 12 pp.

Tilman Möller

Matroids of Combinatorially Formal Arrangements are not Determined by Their Points and Lines

Abstract. An arrangement of hyperplanes is called formal, if the relations between the hyperplanes are generated by relations in codimension 2. Formality is not a combinatorial property, raising the question for a characterization for combinatorial formality. A sufficient condition for this is if the underlying matroid has no proper lift with the same points and lines. We present an example of a matroid with such a lift but no non-formal realization, thus showing that above condition is not necessary for combinatorial formality.


Received: November 21, 2019. Accepted: May 16, 2021. Final Version: June 10, 2021.

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