The fundamental group of the complement of an arrangement of complex hyperplanes

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(92)90006-4MaRDI QIDQ1209383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William A. Arvola

Publication date 16 May 1993

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(92)90006-4

zbMATH Keywords

arrangementfundamental groupplanar graphpresentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Review text

Let \(A\) be an arrangement (i.e. a finite collection of affine hyperplanes) in a finite dimensional vector space \(V\) over the complex numbers. The purpose of this paper is to give a presentation (i.e. a set of generators and relations) for the fundamental group \(\Pi_ 1\) of the complement in \(V\) of the union of the members of \(A\). From general methods it suffices to consider the case \(V=C^ 2\). The answer was already known when \(A\) is restricted to be the complexification of a real arrangement and the presentation of \(\Pi_ 1\) was seen to be determined by a certain planar graph, namely the underlying real arrangement. In this paper this restriction is removed and the presentation is shown to be determined by a certain planar graph with additional structure. The number of generators in the presentation of \(\Pi_ 1\) is shown to be the same as the number of elements in \(A\) and an algorithm is given that produces the relations necessary to define the desired presentation.

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