232 research outputs found
On line and pseudoline configurations and ball-quotients
In this note we show that there are no real configurations of lines
in the projective plane such that the associated Kummer covers of order
are ball-quotients and there are no configurations of lines
such that the Kummer covers of order are ball-quotients. Moreover, we
show that there exists only one configuration of real lines such that the
associated Kummer cover of order is a ball-quotient. In the second
part we consider the so-called topological -configurations and we
show, using Shnurnikov's inequality, that for there do not exist
-configurations and and for there do not exist
-configurations.Comment: 7 pages, one figure. This is the final version, incorporating the
suggestions of the referee, to appear in ARS Mathematica Contemporane
There are no realizable 15_4- and 16_4-configurations
There exist a finite number of natural numbers n for which we do not know
whether a realizable n_4-configuration does exist. We settle the two smallest
unknown cases n=15 and n=16. In these cases realizable n_4-configurations
cannot exist even in the more general setting of pseudoline-arrangements. The
proof in the case n=15 can be generalized to n_k-configurations. We show that a
necessary condition for the existence of a realizable n_k-configuration is that
n > k^2+k-5 holds.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, added pseudoline realizations by Branko
Gr{\"u}nbau
On the Sylvester-Gallai and the orchard problem for pseudoline arrangements
We study a non-trivial extreme case of the orchard problem for
pseudolines and we provide a complete classification of pseudoline arrangements
having triple points and double points. We have also classified those
that can be realized with straight lines. They include new examples different
from the known example of B\"or\"oczky. Since Melchior's inequality also holds
for arrangements of pseudolines, we are able to deduce that some combinatorial
point-line configurations cannot be realized using pseudolines. In particular,
this gives a negative answer to one of Gr\"unbaum's problems. We formulate some
open problems which involve our new examples of line arrangements.Comment: 5 figures, 11 pages, to appear in Periodica Mathematica Hungaric
On topological and geometric configurations
An configuration is a set of points and lines such that each
point lies on lines while each line contains points. The configuration
is geometric, topological, or combinatorial depending on whether lines are
considered to be straight lines, pseudolines, or just combinatorial lines. The
existence and enumeration of configurations for a given has been
subject to active research. A current front of research concerns geometric
configurations: it is now known that geometric configurations
exist for all , apart from sporadic exceptional cases. In this paper,
we settle by computational techniques the first open case of
configurations: we obtain all topological configurations among which
none are geometrically realizable.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Quasi-configurations: building blocks for point-line configurations
We study point-line incidence structures and their properties in the
projective plane. Our motivation is the problem of the existence of
configurations, still open for few remaining values of . Our approach is
based on quasi-configurations: point-line incidence structures where each point
is incident to at least lines and each line is incident to at least
points. We investigate the existence problem for these quasi-configurations,
with a particular attention to -configurations where each element is -
or -valent. We use these quasi-configurations to construct the first
and configurations. The existence problem of finding
, , and configurations remains open.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figure
Enumerating topological -configurations
An -configuration is a set of points and lines in the
projective plane such that their point-line incidence graph is -regular. The
configuration is geometric, topological, or combinatorial depending on whether
lines are considered to be straight lines, pseudolines, or just combinatorial
lines. We provide an algorithm for generating, for given and , all
topological -configurations up to combinatorial isomorphism, without
enumerating first all combinatorial -configurations. We apply this
algorithm to confirm efficiently a former result on topological
-configurations, from which we obtain a new geometric
-configuration. Preliminary results on -configurations are also
briefly reported.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figure
statically checking structural constraints on Java programs
It is generally desirable to detect program errors as early as possible during
software development. Statically typed languages allow many errors to be
detected at compile-time. However, many errors that could be detected
statically cannot be expressed using today’s type systems. In this paper, we
describe a meta-programming framework for Java which allows for static
checking of structural constraints. In particular, we address how design
principles and coding rules can be captured
A Topological Representation Theorem for Oriented Matroids
We present a new direct proof of a topological representation theorem for
oriented matroids in the general rank case. Our proof is based on an earlier
rank 3 version. It uses hyperline sequences and the generalized Sch{\"o}nflies
theorem. As an application, we show that one can read off oriented matroids
from arrangements of embedded spheres of codimension one, even if wild spheres
are involved.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figure
On the Finding of Final Polynomials
Final polynomials have been used to prove non-representability for oriented matroids, i.e. to decide whether geometric embeddings of combinatorial structures exist. They received more attention when Dress and Sturmfels, independently, pointed out that non-representable oriented matroids always possess a final polynomial as a consequence of an appropriate real version of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz. We discuss the more difficult problem of determining such final polynomials algorithmically. We introduce the notion of bi-quadratic final polynomials, and we show that finding them is equivalent to solving an LP-Problem. We apply a new theorem about symmetric oriented matroids to a series of cases of geometrical interest
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