Free arrangements of hyperplanes and supersolvable lattices (Q1063609)
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Free arrangements of hyperplanes and supersolvable lattices (English)
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1984
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The authors investigate the relation between two different concepts that come up with an arrangement A of hyperplanes through the origin in \({\mathbb{C}}^{\ell +1}\). On one hand, A is said to be free if the corresponding module of logarithmic vector fields is a free module. In this case one can define integers \(d_ 0,...,d_{\ell}\geq 0\) called the exponents of A. These turn out to be the zeros of \(t^{\ell +1-n}\chi (t)\), where \(\chi\) (t)\(\in {\mathbb{Z}}[t]\) is the characteristic polynomial of the associated geometric lattice \(L(n=\deg \chi =rank L).\) On the other hand, for any supersolvable lattice one knows that the characteristic polynomial splits over the integers and has only positive zeros. The authors prove that any arrangement with supersolvable lattice is free. The converse is not true, as for \(\ell =2\) L is supersolvable if and only if A is fiber type.
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free arrangement of hyperplanes
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logarithmic vector field
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\(\ell \)- arrangement of hyperplanes
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supersolvable lattice
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