Suspensions of affine arrangements
Suspensions of affine arrangements
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仿射排列的中止
DOI:
10.1007/s002080050121
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
C. Schaper
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作者:
C. Schaper
It is known that the homology type and even the stable homotopy type of the complement of an affine arrangement is determined by combinatorial data. Various interesting spaces (eg the K (π, 1)-spaces of the pure braid group) have the structure of such arrangement complements. This result yields that if one takes the complement of an arrangement and suspends it “often enough”, one obtains a space whose homotopy type depends only on the poset of intersections together with the dimension function. For example in the case of complex hyperplane arrangements this space is a finite wedge of spheres of various dimensions. This leads one to ask how many suspensions are needed. In this paper we show that from Spanier-Whitehead duality one gets explicit upper bounds for the number of suspensions. The bounds obtained in this way are relatively weak, and the harder part of the present paper is to show, that in the specific situation of affine arrangements much better results are true: in particular, in the case of complex arrangements one single suspension does suffice.