On models of the braid arrangement and their hidden symmetries

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNV009MaRDI QIDQ3458770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Callegaro, G. Gaiffi

Publication date 23 December 2015

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1304

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: The De Concini-Procesi wonderful models of the braid arrangement of type $A_{n-1}$ are equipped with a natural $S_n$ action, but only the minimal model admits an `hidden' symmetry, i.e. an action of $S_{n+1}$ that comes from its moduli space interpretation. In this paper we explain why the non minimal models don't admit this extended action: they are `too small'. In particular we construct a {em supermaximal} model which is the smallest model that can be projected onto the maximal model and again admits an extended $S_{n+1}$ action. We give an explicit description of a basis for the integer cohomology of this supermaximal model. Furthermore, we deal with another hidden extended action of the symmetric group: we observe that the symmetric group $S_{n+k}$ acts by permutation on the set of $k$-codimensionl strata of the minimal model. Even if this happens at a purely combinatorial level, it gives rise to an interesting permutation action on the elements of a basis of the integer cohomology.

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