English

The icosahedral line configuration and Waldschmidt constants

Algebraic Geometry 2022-09-07 v1

Abstract

There is a highly special point configuration in P2\mathbb{P}^2 of 31 points, naturally arising from the geometry of the icosahedron. The 15 planes of symmetry of the icosahedron projectivize to 15 lines in P2\mathbb{P}^2, whose points of intersections yield the 31 points. Each point corresponds to an opposite pair of vertices, faces or edges of the icosahedron. The symmetry group of the icosahedron is G=A5×Z2G=A_5\times \mathbb{Z}_2, one of finitely many exceptional complex reflection groups. The action of GG on the icosahedron descends onto an action on the line configuration. We blow up P2\mathbb{P}^2 at the 31 points to study the line configuration. The Waldschmidt constant is a measure of how special a collection of points in P2\mathbb{P}^2. In this paper, we study negative GG-invariant curves on this blow-up in order to compute the Waldschmidt constant of the ideal of the 3131 singularities.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.01499,
  title  = {The icosahedral line configuration and Waldschmidt constants},
  author = {Sebastian Calvo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01499},
  year   = {2022}
}
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