On the geography of line arrangements
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the geography of line arrangements
zbMATH Open document ID: 1484.14013
author: Sebastian Eterović
author: Fernando Figueroa
author: Giancarlo Urzúa
publication date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00990
review text: In the paper under review, the authors study the so-called (combinatorial) geography problem for line arrangements. Here we would like to emphasize that the authors rediscover, in a certain way, the geography problem of log surfaces of general type that are associated with line arrangements in the complex projective plane. However, here the authors look at the combinatorial side instead of digging into the world of sheaves of logarithmic differentials. Let \(\mathcal{A} \subset \mathbb{P}^{2}_{\Bbbk}\) be an arrangement of \(d\) lines in the plane defined over an arbitrary field \(\Bbbk\). We define by \(t_{m}(\mathcal{A}) :=t_{m}\) the number of \(m\)-fold points of \(\mathcal{A}\), i.e., points in the plane where exactly \(m\) lines meet. We define integers \[\overline{c}_{1}^{2}(\mathcal{A}) = 9-5d + \sum_{m\geq 2}(3m-4)t_{m},\] \[\overline{c}_{2}(\mathcal{A}) = 3-2d + \sum_{m\geq 2}(m-1)t_{m}.\] They are called the Chern numbers of \(\mathcal{A}\). It is known that if for an arrangement \(\mathcal{A}\) one has \(t_{d}=t_{d-1}=0\), then the Chern numbers of \(\mathcal{A}\) are positive. Analogously to the geography problem for surfaces of general type, we can talk about the geography problem for line arrangements over a fixed field \(\Bbbk\): given a pair of integers \((a,b) \in \mathbb{Z}^{2}\), is there a line arrangement over \(\Bbbk\) with \(\overline{c}_{1}^{2}(\mathcal{A}) = a\) and \(\overline{c}_{2}(\mathcal{A})=b\)? Using a technical density lemma (proved as Lemma 4.2 therein), the authors show that the set of accumulation points of Chern slopes of arrangement over \(\overline{\mathbb{F}}_{p}\) is the interval \([2,3]\), and they also (re)prove the fact that the set of accumulation points of Chern slopes of arrangement over \(\mathbb{R}\) is the interval \([2,5/2]\). Let us also recall the notion of the linear Harbourne index for a line arrangement \(\mathcal{A} \subset \mathbb{P}^{2}_{\Bbbk}\), namely \[H_{L}(\mathcal{A}) = \frac{d - \sum_{m\geq 2}mt_{m…
reviewed by: Piotr Pokora
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14C17
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14N20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14J29
zbMATH DE Number: 7510947
zbMATH Keywords: line arrangement
zbMATH Keywords: Chern number
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3175634468
arXiv ID: 1805.00990
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DOI: 10.1515/ADVGEOM-2021-0025
published in: advg
description: scientific article