A complex euclidean reflection group with an elegant complement complex
Abstract
The complement of a hyperplane arrangement in deformation retracts onto an -dimensional cell complex, but the known procedures only apply to complexifications of real arrangements (Salvetti) or the cell complex produced depends on an initial choice of coordinates (Bj\"orner-Ziegler). In this article we consider the unique complex euclidean reflection group acting cocompactly by isometries on whose linear part is the finite complex reflection group known as in the Shephard-Todd classification and we construct a choice-free deformation retraction from its hyperplane complement onto an elegant -dimensional complex where every -cell is a euclidean equilateral triangle and every vertex link is a M\"obius-Kantor graph. Since is non-positively curved, the corresponding braid group is a CAT(0) group, despite the fact that there are non-regular points in the hyperplane complement, the action of the reflection group on is not free, and the braid group is not torsion-free.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1707.06624,
title = {A complex euclidean reflection group with an elegant complement complex},
author = {Ben Coté and Jon McCammond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06624},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
30 pages, 4 figures