Topology of complex reflection arrangements

Publication date 29 November 2004

Abstract: Let

V

be a finite dimensional complex vector space and

W s u b s e t G L (V)

be a finite complex reflection group. Let

V^{e g}

be the complement in

V

of the reflecting hyperplanes. A classical conjecture predicts that

V^{e g}

is a

K (p i, 1)

space. When

W

is a complexified real reflection group, the conjecture follows from a theorem of Deligne. Our main result validates the conjecture for duality (or, equivalently, well-generated) complex reflection groups. This includes the complexified real case (but our proof is new) and new cases not previously known. We also address a number of questions about

p i_{1} (W c q V^{e g})

, the braid group of

W

.

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