A counterexample to Orlik’s conjecture
A counterexample to Orlik’s conjecture
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奥尔利克猜想的反例
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9939-1993-1134624-x
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发表时间:
1993
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通讯作者:
V. Reiner
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作者:
Paul H. Edelman;V. Reiner
We present a counterexample to the conjecture by Orlik that the restriction of a free hyperplane arrangement to one of its hyperplanes is free. I. DEFINITIONS AND THE COUNTEREXAMPLE This note presents a counterexample to a conjecture by Orlik on hyperplane arrangements. In what follows, we give only those definitions necessary to state the conjecture and the counterexample. For more background on the theory of hyperplane arrangements, see [Or]. Let X be a finite set of hyperplanes (subspaces of codimension one) passing through the origin in Rd, and for each hyperplane H in A, let 'H be the linear form in the polynomial ring S = R[x1, ... , Xd] that vanishes on H (so that 'H is uniquely defined up to a scalar multiple). The module of i-derivations Der(A') is defined to be the set of all derivations 6: S S with the property that 6(iH) is divisible by 'H for all H in A. Der(A) is a module over the polynomial ring S, and and we say A is a free arrangement if it is a free module over S. Given any hyperplane H in A, we define the restriction arrangement AIH to be the arrangement within the subspace H (thinking of H as Rd-i ) whose hyperplanes are all of the intersections of hyperplanes of X with H. Conjecture (Orlik [T, Problem 2; Or, p. 86]). For any hyperplane H in a free arrangement A, the restriction arrangement 'IH is free. A counterexample to this conjecture is given by the arrangement A consisting of the 21 hyperplanes in R5 defined by the equations xi = 0 for i=1,2,3,4,5 and X1+82X2+83X3+84X4+e85X5=0 where ei=+l foreach i. Using the computer algebra package MACAULAY, it was checked that Der(Z) is a free S-module with an S-basis consisting of five homogeneous derivations of degrees (0, 4, 4, 4, 4), respectively. These derivations were then double-checked to satisfy Saito's criterion for freeness [Or, Theorem 9.7] using MATHEMATICA. Choosing H to be the hyperplane defined by 'H = Received by the editors September 24, 1991 and, in revised form, November 6, 1991. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 52B30. ? 1993 American Mathematical Society 0002-9939/93 $1.00 + $.25 per page