Compactifications of the configuration space of six points of the projective plane and fundamental solutions of the hypergeometric system of type \((3,6)\) (Q1384451)

This paper gives a combinatorial study of the configuration space of six points in the complex projective plane. The authors start with a detailed description of the regular triangulations of the product of two copies of \(2\)-simplex, by relating it with the compactification of the configuration space and with the cross-ratio variety due to Naruki. The compactification \(\overline X\) can be embedded into \({\mathbb{P}}^{45}\). Its affine part \(X\) is \(4\)-dimensional and the complement \(\overline X -X\) is consisting of \(76\) nonsingular irreducible divisors crossing each other normally. A remarkable fact is that the Weyl group \(W\) of type \(E_6\) acts on \(\overline X\) and the authors clarified the action of \(W\) completely by relying on the combinatorial consideration on the divisors. The space \(X\) on the other hand is the space where the hypergeometric system of type \(E(3,6)\) is lying on. The second important result of this paper is enumerating the concrete list of a set of fundamental solutions around each normal crossing points of the divisors in terms of hypergeometric power series, which is done successfully by use of their compactification.