Aluffi's Euler characteristic conjecture for graph hypersurface complements

Let Γ\Gamma be a finite graph with graph hypersurface XΓPn1X_\Gamma\subset\mathbb P^{n-1}, and write YΓ=Pn1XΓY_\Gamma=\mathbb P^{n-1}\smallsetminus X_\Gamma for its projective hypersurface complement. Aluffi's conjecture. The Euler characteristic satisfies

χ(YΓ){0,1,1}.\chi(Y_\Gamma)\in\{0,1,-1\}.

This conjecture had been confirmed by computer calculations for many sufficiently small graphs and for some other classes of graphs. If true, it would imply that the Euler characteristics of the graph hypersurfaces XΓX_\Gamma are always non-negative.

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Dori Bejleri and Matilde Marcolli, “Quantum field theory over F1”, arXiv:1209.4837 (2012).

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