A topological invariant of line arrangements

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201509_014zbMATH Open1390.32022arXiv1407.3387OpenAlexW2963237619MaRDI QIDQ4604576FDOQ4604576

Authors: Vincent Florens, Benoît Guerville-Ballé, Enrique Artal Bartolo 

Publication date: 2 March 2018

Published in: ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a new topological invariant of line arrangements in the complex projective plane. This invariant is a root of unity defined under some combinatorial restrictions for arrangements endowed with some special torsion character on the fundamental group of their complements. It is derived from the peripheral structure on the group induced by the inclusion map of the boundary of a tubular neigborhood in the exterior of the arrangement. By similarity with knot theory, it can be viewed as an analogue of linking numbers. This is an orientation-preserving invariant for ordered arrangements. We give an explicit method to compute the invariant from the equations of the arrangement, by using wiring diagrams introduced by Arvola, that encode the braid monodromy. Moreover, this invariant is a crucial ingredient to compute the depth of a character satisfying some resonant conditions, and complete the existent methods by Libgober and the first author. Finally, we compute the invariant for extended MacLane arrangements with an additional line and observe that it takes different values for the deformation classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3387

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zbMATH Keywords

line arrangementsbraided wiring diagramscohomology and homology theoryline combinatorics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25)

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