Translated tori in the characteristic varieties of complex hyperplane arrangements
Algebraic Geometry
2007-05-23 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
We give examples of complex hyperplane arrangements for which the top characteristic variety contains positive-dimensional irreducible components that do not pass through the origin of the character torus. These examples answer several questions of Libgober and Yuzvinsky. As an application, we exhibit a pair of arrangements for which the resonance varieties of the Orlik-Solomon algebra are (abstractly) isomorphic, yet whose characteristic varieties are not isomorphic. The difference comes from translated components, which are not detected by the tangent cone at the origin.
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@article{arxiv.math/9912227,
title = {Translated tori in the characteristic varieties of complex hyperplane arrangements},
author = {Alexander I. Suciu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9912227},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Revised and expanded; 16 pages, 10 figures; to appear in Topology and its Applications