On complex supersolvable line arrangements

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Abstract: We show that the number of lines in an m--homogeneous supersolvable line arrangement is upper bounded by 3m−3 and we classify the m--homogeneous supersolvable line arrangements with two modular points up-to lattice-isotopy. A lower bound for the number of double points n2 in an m--homogeneous supersolvable line arrangement of d lines is also considered. When 3leqmleq5, or when mgeqfracd2, or when there are at least two modular points, we show that n2geqfracd2, as conjectured by B. Anzis and S. O. Tohu aneanu. This conjecture is shown to hold also for supersolvable line arrangements obtained as cones over generic line arrangements, or cones over arbitrary line arrangements having a generic vertex.


Let \(\mathcal{A}\) be a line arrangement in the complex projective plane. An intersection point \(p\) of \(\mathcal{A}\) is modular if for another intersection point \(q\) of \(\mathcal{L}\) the line determined by \(p\) and \(q\) belongs to the arrangement \(\mathcal{A}\). Now we say that a line arrangement \(\mathcal{L}\) is supersolvable if it has a modular point. A supersolvable line arrangement \(\mathcal{A}\) is \(m\)-homogeneous if all the modular points have the same multiplicity \(m\). The authors prove the following results on supersolvable line arrangements. Theorem A. Let \(\mathcal{A}\) be a supersolvable arrangement of \(d\) lines in the complex projective plane \(\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}}\). Let \(p\) be a modular point of \(\mathcal{A}\) having maximal multiplicity \(m \geq 2\). Then \(d \leq 3m - 3\). Theorem B. Let \(\mathcal{A}\) be an \(m\)-homogeneous supersolvable line arrangement in the complex projective plane \(\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}}\) with \(m\geq 3\). Then the number of modular points \(M\) of \(\mathcal{A}\) satisfies \(M\leq 4\). Moreover, any \(m\)-homogeneous supersolvable line arrangement \(\mathcal{A}\) with \(m\geq 3\) and \(M \geq 3\) is projectively equivalent to the arrangement \(\mathcal{A}(m-2,1,3)\) given by the following defining equation: \[ xyz(x^{m-2} - y^{m-2})(y^{m-2} - z^{m-2})(x^{m-2} - z^{m-2}) = 0. \] In the second part of the paper, the authors study the properties of the Milnor fibers and the complements of supersolvable line arrangements. Proposition. Let \(A\) be a supersolvable \(m\)-homogeneous line arrangement with \(m\geq 3\) having at least two modular points. Denote by \(f\) the defining equation of \(\mathcal{A}\). Then the combinatorics of \(\mathcal{A}\) determines the diffeomorphism type of the complement \(\mathcal{M}(\mathcal{A}) = \mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}} \setminus \bigcup_{H \in \mathcal{A}} H\) of \(\mathcal{A}\), the Milnor fiber \(F(\mathcal{A})\) given by \(f(x,y,z) = 1\) in \(\mathbb{C}^{3}\), as well as the monodromy operators \(h^{*} : H^{*}(F(\mathcal{A}) , \mathbb{C}) \rightarrow H^{*}(F(\mathcal{A}), \mathbb{C})\). Finally, the authors show that cones over generic line arrangements and arbitrary line arrangements (i.e., a special class of supersolvable line arrangements with exactly one modular point) do not admit the so-called unexpected curves.











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