The rank of a hypergeometric system

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Abstract

The holonomic rank of the A-hypergeometric system MA(β) is the degree of the toric ideal IA for generic parameters; in general, this is only a lower bound. To the semigroup ring of A we attach the ranking arrangement and use this algebraic invariant and the exceptional arrangement of non-generic parameters to construct a combinatorial formula for the rank jump of MA(β). As consequences, we obtain a refinement of the stratification of the exceptional arrangement by the rank of MA(β) and show that the Zariski closure of each of its strata is a union of translates of linear subspaces ofthe parameter space. These results hold for generalized A-hypergeometric systems as well, where the semigroup ring of A is replaced by a non-trivial weakly toric module M[A]. We also provide a direct proof of the main result in [M.Saito, Isomorphism classes of A-hypergeometric systems, Compositio Math. 128 (2001), 323-338] regarding the isomorphism classes of MA (β).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)284-318
Number of pages35
JournalCompositio Mathematica
Volume147
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2011

Keywords

  • D-module
  • Euler-Koszul
  • combinatorial
  • holonomic
  • hypergeometric
  • rank
  • toric

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