The Enumerative Geometry of Hyperplane Arrangements

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Authors Thomas K. Paul, Will Traves, Max D. Wakefield

Publication date 22 September 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: We study enumerative questions on the moduli space $mathcalM(L)$ of hyperplane arrangements with a given intersection lattice $L$. Mn"ev's universality theorem suggests that these moduli spaces can be arbitrarily complicated; indeed it is even difficult to compute the dimension $D=dimmathcalM(L)$. Embedding $mathcalM(L)$ in a product of projective spaces, we study the degree $N=mathrmdegmathcalM(L)$, which can be interpreted as the number of arrangements in $mathcalM(L)$ that pass through $D$ points in general position. For generic arrangements $N$ can be computed combinatorially and this number also appears in the study of the Chow variety of zero dimensional cycles. We compute $D$ and $N$ using Schubert calculus in the case where $L$ is the intersection lattice of the arrangement obtained by taking multiple cones over a generic arrangement. We also calculate the characteristic numbers for families of generic arrangements in $mathbb{P}^2$ with 3 and 4 lines.

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