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Singular Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries

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arxiv 2010.06088 v5 pith:OA3NSPSW submitted 2020-10-13 math.CO math.AG

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keywords applicationscoefficientscohomologycombinatorialconjecturedowlingdualitygeometries
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We introduce the intersection cohomology module of a matroid and prove that it satisfies Poincar\'e duality, the hard Lefschetz theorem, and the Hodge-Riemann relations. As applications, we obtain proofs of Dowling and Wilson's Top-Heavy conjecture and the nonnegativity of the coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for all matroids.

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