Cohomology Jumping Loci and Relative Malcev Completion

arXiv0804.4164MaRDI QIDQ6209280FDOQ6209280

Publication date: 25 April 2008

Abstract: Two standard invariants used to study the fundamental group G of the complement X of a hyperplane arrangement are the Malcev completion of G and the cohomology groups of X with coefficients in rank one local systems. In this paper, we develop a tool that unifies these two approaches. This tool is the Malcev completion S_p of G relative to a homomorphism p from G into (C^*)^N. This is a prosolvable group that is tightly controlled by the cohomology groups of X with coefficients in rank one local systems. The prounipotent radical U_p of the relative completion S_p corresponds to a pronilpotent Lie algebra u_p. We provide an example of a hyperplane complement X for which this algebra is not quadratically presented. In addition, we show that if X is a hyperplane complement and Y is a subtorus of the character torus, then S_p is combinatorially determined for general p in Y. Finally, we show that the relative completion S_p is generally constant over subvarieties of the character torus.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects) (16E45) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Mal'tsev rings and algebras (17D10)

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