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 , the pro- completion of the pure braid group on strands has the Bloch-Kato property if and only if ; - for all prime numbers , the pro- completion of the pure mapping class group of the sphere with punctures has the Bloch-Kato property if and only if .
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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