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Toric arrangements and Bloch-Kato pro-$p$ groups

Group Theory 2025-07-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove a purely combinatorial obstruction for the Bloch-Kato property within the class of fundamental groups of complement manifolds of toric arrangements (i.e., arrangements of hypersurfaces in the complex torus). As a stepping stone we obtain a combinatorial obstruction for the cohomology of a supersolvable arrangement to be generated in degree 1. Our result allows us to prove that - for all prime numbers pp, the pro-pp completion of the pure braid group on kk strands has the Bloch-Kato property if and only if k3k\leq 3; - for all prime numbers pp, the pro-pp completion of the pure mapping class group of the sphere S2S^2 with kk punctures has the Bloch-Kato property if and only if k4k\leq 4.

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@article{arxiv.2507.16428,
  title  = {Toric arrangements and Bloch-Kato pro-$p$ groups},
  author = {Emanuele Delucchi and Ettore Marmo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16428},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 3 figures