Abstract
A classic problem in the theory of matroids is to find a subspace arrangement, such as a hyperplane or pseudosphere arrangement, whose intersection poset is isomorphic to a prescribed geometric lattice. Engström gave an explicit construction for an infinite family of such arrangements, indexed by the set of finite regular CW complexes. In this paper, we compute the face numbers of these topological representations in terms of the face numbers of the indexing complexes and give upper bounds on the total number of faces in these objects. Moreover, for a fixed rank, we show that the total number of faces in the Engström representation corresponding to a codimension one homotopy sphere arrangement is bounded above by a polynomial in the number of elements of the matroid, whose degree is one less than the matroid’s rank.
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