Traversing regions of supersolvable hyperplane arrangements and their lattice quotients
Abstract
For an arrangement \(\mathcal{H}\) of hyperplanes in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) through the origin, a region is a connected subset of \(\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \mathcal{H}\). The graph of regions \(G(\mathcal{H})\) has a vertex for every region, and an edge between any two vertices whose corresponding regions are separated by a single hyperplane from \(\mathcal{H}\). We aim to compute a Hamiltonian path or cycle in the graph \(G(\mathcal{H})\), i.e., a path or cycle that visits every vertex (=region) exactly once. Our first main result is that if \(\mathcal{H}\) is a supersolvable arrangement, then the graph of regions \(G(\mathcal{H})\) has a Hamiltonian cycle. More generally, we consider quotients of lattice congruences of the poset of regions \(\mathsf{P}(\mathcal{H}, R_0)\), obtained by orienting the graph \(G(\mathcal{H})\) away from a particular base region \(R_0\). Our second main result is that if \(\mathcal{H}\) is supersolvable and \(R_0\) is a canonical base region, then for any lattice congruence \(\equiv\) on \(\mathsf{P}(\mathcal{H}, R_0) =: L\), the cover graph of the quotient lattice \(L/{\equiv}\) has a Hamiltonian path.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
Finite Group Theory Research
Advanced Mathematical Identities
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks
- Pages
- 4953–4968
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN