Roudneff's conjecture on complete cells in pseudohyperplane arrangements

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Let H(d,n)H(d,n) be an arrangement of nn pseudohyperplanes in the real projective space Pd\mathbb{P}^d, and call a dd-cell complete if it is bounded by every pseudohyperplane. For an oriented matroid of rank rr on nn elements, let Cr−1(n)C_{r-1}(n) denote the number of complete cells in the cyclic arrangement of dimension r−1r-1 with nn hyperplanes. Roudneff's conjecture. Every rank rr oriented matroid M\mathcal{M} on n≥r+1n\geq r+1 elements has at most

2Cr−1(n)2C_{r-1}(n)

complete cells. Equivalently, every arrangement of n≥2d+1≥5n\geq 2d+1\geq 5 pseudohyperplanes in Pd\mathbb{P}^d has at most

∑i=0d−2(n−1i)\sum_{i=0}^{d-2}\binom{n-1}{i}

complete cells. The conjecture is known for d=2,3d=2,3, for arrangements arising from Lawrence oriented matroids, and, by this paper's main theorem, for d=4d=4.

References

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Rangel Hernández-Ortiz, Kolja Knauer, Luis Pedro Montejano and Manfred Scheucher, “Roudneff's Conjecture in Dimension 4”, arXiv:2303.14212 (2023).

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