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Torus orbits on homogeneous varieties and Kac polynomials of quivers
In this paper we prove that the counting polynomials of certain torus orbits
in products of partial flag varieties coincides with the Kac polynomials of
supernova quivers, which arise in the study of the moduli spaces of certain
irregular meromorphic connections on trivial bundles over the projective line.
We also prove that these polynomials can be expressed as a specialization of
Tutte polynomials of certain graphs providing a combinatorial proof of the
non-negativity of their coefficients
On Hyperfocused Arcs in PG(2,q)
A k-arc in a Dearguesian projective plane whose secants meet some external
line in k-1 points is said to be hyperfocused. Hyperfocused arcs are
investigated in connection with a secret sharing scheme based on geometry due
to Simmons. In this paper it is shown that point orbits under suitable groups
of elations are hyperfocused arcs with the significant property of being
contained neither in a hyperoval, nor in a proper subplane. Also, the concept
of generalized hyperfocused arc, i.e. an arc whose secants admit a blocking set
of minimum size, is introduced: a construction method is provided, together
with the classification for size up to 10
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