The Poincaré-Deligne polynomial of Milnor fibers of triple point line arrangements is combinatorially determined (Q2810706)

To a hyperplane arrangement \(\mathcal A\) in \(\mathbb P^{n}\) of a reduced equation \(Q(x)=0\) one attaches its Milnor fiber \(F\) defined by the equation \(Q(x)=1\) in \(\mathbb C^{n+1}\). In general, it is not known whether the Betti numbers of \(F\) are combinatorially determined. The author answers by the positive for the class of arrangements of lines in \(\mathbb P^{2}\) with only double and triple points, namely: the equivariant Poincaré-Deligne polynomial of \(F\) coming from the monodromy action is determined by the number of lines in \(\mathcal A\), the number of triple points in \(\mathcal A\) and the Papadima-Suciu invariant of \(\mathcal A\). The Papadima-Suciu invariant of a line arrangement has been introduced in [\textit{S. Papadima} and \textit{A. I. Suciu}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 114, No. 6, 961--1004 (2017; Zbl 1378.32020)], and is defined as the multiplicity of the primitive cubic root of unity eigenvalue of the monodromy \(h^*:H^1(F)\to H^1(F)\).