HOMOLOGY OF i-CONNECTED GRAPHS AND INVARIANTS OF KNOTS, PLANE ARRANGEMENTS, ETC
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We describe several objects and problems of homological combinatorics, arising naturally in the theory of discriminants and plane arrangements, in particular the homology groups of complexes of connected and two-connected graphs and hypergraphs. Knot-theoretical motivations and applications are indicated, as well as first results of related calculations of homology groups of spaces of knots and generic plane curves. Unsolved problems are discussed.
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