On inductively free reflection arrangements.

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2013-0022MaRDI QIDQ2018384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Torsten Hoge, Gerhard Röhrle

Publication date 14 April 2015

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3131

zbMATH Keywords

complex reflection groupshyperplane arrangementsinductively free arrangementsreflection arrangements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: Suppose that W is a finite, unitary reflection group acting on the complex vector space V. Let A = A(W) be the associated hyperplane arrangement of W. Terao has shown that each such reflection arrangement A is free. There is the stronger notion of an inductively free arrangement. In 1992, Orlik and Terao conjectured that each reflection arrangement is inductively free. It has been known for quite some time that the braid arrangement as well as the Coxeter arrangements of type B and type D are inductively free. Barakat and Cuntz completed this list only recently by showing that every Coxeter arrangement is inductively free. Nevertheless, Orlik and Terao's conjecture is false in general. In a recent paper, we already gave two counterexamples to this conjecture among the exceptional complex reflection groups. In this paper we classify all inductively free reflection arrangements. In addition, we show that the notions of inductive freeness and that of hereditary inductive freeness coincide for reflection arrangements. As a consequence of our classification, we get an easy, purely combinatorial characterization of inductively free reflection arrangements A in terms of exponents of the restrictions to any hyperplane of A.

Review text

Let \(\mathcal A\) be a hyperplane arrangement. We say \(\mathcal A\) is free to mean that the module of derivations is free over the polynomial ring. A stronger condition is to say that \(\mathcal A\) is inductively free. Supersolvable arrangements, the braid arrangement, and Coxeter arrangements are famous classes of inductively free arrangements. It was conjectured in [\textit{P. Orlik} and \textit{H. Terao}, Arrangements of hyperplanes. Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 300. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (1992; Zbl 0757.55001)] that reflection arrangements are inductively free; however, this is a false conjecture. In the paper under review, the authors are motivated by this conjecture and classify all inductively free reflection arrangements. Theorem. For \(W\) a finite complex reflection group, the reflection arrangement \(\mathcal A(W)\) of \(W\) is inductively free if and only if \(W\) does not admit an irreducible factor isomorphic to a monomial group \(G(r,r,\ell)\) for \(\ell\geq 3\), \(G_{24}\), \(G_{27}\), \(G_{29}\), \(G_{31}\), \(G_{33}\), or \(G_{34}\). Moreover, the authors prove that for a reflection arrangement, inductively free is equivalent to hereditary inductively free. Using this fact, the authors obtain a combinatorial characterization of inductively free reflection arrangement in terms of exponents.

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