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Singular Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries

Tom Braden, June Huh, Jacob P. Matherne, Nicholas Proudfoot and 1 more

Journal of the American Mathematical Society | Jul 1, 2026 | 30 citations

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We introduce the intersection cohomology module of a matroid and prove that it satisfies Poincaré duality, the hard Lefschetz theorem, and the Hodge-Riemann relations. As applications, we obtain proofs of Dowling and Wilson's Top-Heavy conjecture and the nonnegativity of the coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for all matroids.

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Tom Braden

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June Huh

middle | ORCID 0009-0003-9731-6190

Jacob P. Matherne

middle | ORCID 0000-0002-6187-9771

Nicholas Proudfoot

middle | ORCID 0000-0001-8646-3222

Botong Wang

last | ORCID 0009-0006-2907-0370

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@article{Braden2026Singular,
  title = {Singular Hodge theory for combinatorial geometries},
  author = {Tom Braden and June Huh and Jacob P. Matherne and Nicholas Proudfoot and Botong Wang},
  journal = {Journal of the American Mathematical Society},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1090/jams/1083},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/1083}
}

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