Combinatorial symmetry of line arrangements and applications (Q492261)

In the present paper, the authors study in detail certain real line arrangements which could potentially lead to new examples of the so-called Zariski pairs, i.e., a pair of line arrangements in the complex projective plane having isomorphic intersection lattices, but different embeddings to \(\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}}\). A necessary condition for a Zariski pair is a disconnected (ordered) moduli space. Denoting by \(\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{A})\) the intersection lattice of a line arrangement \(\mathcal{A}\) of \(n\) lines, we define this moduli space by \[ \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{A}}= \{ \mathcal{B} \in ( (\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}})^{*})^{n}: \mathcal{L}(\mathcal{A}) = \mathcal{L}(\mathcal{B})\}/\mathrm{PGL}(3,\mathbb{C}). \] The main idea of the authors is to apply a certain strategy (Strategy 2.4 therein) to disqualify three real line arrangements of ten lines (these examples come from the previous papers of some of the authors where they classified moduli spaces of line arrangements with ten lines [\textit{M. Amram} et al., Adv. Appl. Math. 51, No. 3, 392--418 (2013; Zbl 1283.14023); ``Moduli spaces of ten-line arrangements with double and triple points'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1306.6105}]) from being Zariski pairs. The key idea behind Strategy 2.4 is to use a combinatorial \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\) subgroup of the automorphism group of a given arrangement in order to produce a particular geometric symmetry. The main result of the paper can be formulated as follows. Main Result. For three arrangements, denoted in the article as \(\{1\},\{6\},\{7\}\), the only ten-line arrangements whose moduli space consists of two real points and that each have a \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\) subgroup of their automorphism group, the map \(\phi: x \mapsto y, y \mapsto x, z \mapsto z\) is a homeomorphism between the complements of representatives of the two components of the moduli space, and thus these are not Zariski pairs.