Zariski density of monodromy groups via a Picard-Lefschetz type formula

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNW342MaRDI QIDQ4619397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jinxing Xu

Publication date 6 February 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04165

zbMATH Keywords

cohomologymoduli spacehyperplane arrangementmonodromy groupcomplex projective varietyPicard-Lefschetz type formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Global theory of complex singularities; cohomological properties (32S20)

Abstract: For the universal family of cyclic covers of projective spaces branched along hyperplane arrangements in general position, we consider its monodromy group acting on an eigen linear subspace of the middle cohomology of the fiber. We prove the monodromy group is Zariski dense in the corresponding linear group. It can be viewed as a degenerate analogy of Carlson-Toledo's result about the monodromy groups of smooth hypersurfaces [Duke Math. J. 97(3) (1999), 621-648]. The main ingredient in the proof is a Picard-Lefschetz type formula for a suitable degeneration of this family.

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