Circle-valued Morse theory for complex hyperplane arrangements

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2013-0032MaRDI QIDQ2353618zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Toshitake Kohno, A. Pajitnov

Publication date 15 July 2015

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0437

zbMATH Keywords

hyperplane arrangementMorse theoryNovikov homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: Let A be an essential complex hyperplane arrangement in an n-dimensional complex vector space V. Let H denote the union of the hyperplanes, and M denote the complement to H in V. We develop the real-valued and circle-valued Morse theory for M and prove, in particular, that M has the homotopy type of a space obtained from a manifold fibered over a circle, by attaching cells of dimension n. We compute the Novikov homology of M for a large class of homomorphisms of the fundamental group of M to R.

Review text

The authors show that the complement of an essential complex affine hyperplane arrangement \(M\) has the homotopy type of a space obtained from a manifold \(V\), which fibers over a circle, by attaching \(|\chi(M)|\) cells, all of dimension equal to the complex dimension of \(M\). They also compute the Novikov homology associated to \(M\) and to some homomorphisms \(\xi: \pi_1(M) \to \mathbb{R}\).

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