Factorization Statistics and the Twisted Grothendieck-Lefschetz formula
Séminaire lotharingien de combinatoire, 80B (2018)
Factorization statistics are functions defined on the set Polyd(Fq) of all monic degree d polynomials with coefficients in Fq which only depend on the degrees of the irreducible factors of a polynomial. We show that the expected values of factorization statistics are determined by the representation theoretic structure of the cohomology of point configurations in R3. This twisted Grothendieck-Lefschetz formula for Polyd is analogous to a result of Church, Ellenberg, and Farb for squarefree polynomials. Our proof uses formal power series methods which also lead to a new proof of the Church, Ellenberg, and Farb result circumventing algebraic geometry.
@article{SLC_2018_80B_a5,
author = {Trevor Hyde},
title = {Factorization {Statistics} and the {Twisted} {Grothendieck-Lefschetz} formula},
journal = {S\'eminaire lotharingien de combinatoire},
year = {2018},
volume = {80B},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/SLC_2018_80B_a5/}
}
Trevor Hyde. Factorization Statistics and the Twisted Grothendieck-Lefschetz formula. Séminaire lotharingien de combinatoire, 80B (2018). http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/SLC_2018_80B_a5/