The intrinsic hyperplane arrangement in an arbitrary irreducible representation of the symmetric group (Q2209752)

The main result of the paper says that for every irreducible complex representation \(\pi_\lambda\) of the symmetric group \(S_n\) there exists a canonical ``intrinsic'' hyperplane arrangement \(A_\lambda\) in the space \(V_\lambda\) of this representation. In the case of the natural representation of \(S_n\), it coincides with the so-called braid arrangement, studied by [\textit{V. I. Arnol'd}, Math. Notes 5, 138--140 (1969; Zbl 0277.55002); translation from Mat. Zametki 5, 227--231 (1969)] in connection with the cohomology of the group of pure1 braids. \par This arrangement has a natural description in terms of invariant subspaces of Young subgroups, and enjoys a number of remarkable properties. An attempt to generalize Arnold's construction to other irreducible representations of symmetric groups has led the authors to quite dissimilar arrangements, whose complements, in particular, are not \(K(\pi,1)\) spaces.