Deformations of free and linear free divisors

We investigate deformations of free and linear free divisors. We introduce a complex similar to the de Rham complex whose cohomology calculates deformation spaces. This cohomology turns out to be zero for many linear free divisors and to be constructible in many casesComment: This is the final version of the article that will appear in the Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Volume 63, 201

Freeness of Hyperplane Arrangements between Boolean Arrangements and Weyl Arrangements of Type Bℓ B_{\ell}

Every subarrangement of Weyl arrangements of type $B_{\ell}$ is represented by a signed graph. Edelman and Reiner characterized freeness of subarrangements between type $A_{\ell-1}$ and type $B_{\ell}$ in terms of graphs. Recently, Suyama and the authors characterized freeness for subarrangements containing Boolean arrangements satisfying a certain condition. This article is a sequel to the previous work. Namely, we give a complete characterization for freeness of arrangements between Boolean arrangements and Weyl arrangements of type $B_{\ell}$ in terms of graphs.Comment: 15 page

Resonant bands, Aomoto complex, and real 4-nets

The resonant band is a useful notion for the computation of the nontrivial monodromy eigenspaces of the Milnor fiber of a real line arrangement. In this article, we develop the resonant band description for the cohomology of the Aomoto complex. As an application, we prove that real 4-nets do not exist.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figure

On the Falk invariant of hyperplane arrangements attached to gain graphs

The fundamental group of the complement of a hyperplane arrangement in a complex vector space is an important topological invariant. The third rank of successive quotients in the lower central series of the fundamental group was called Falk invariant of the arrangement since Falk gave the first formula and asked to give a combinatorial interpretation. In this article, we give a combinatorial formula for the Falk invariant of hyperplane arrangements attached to certain gain graphs.Comment: To appear in the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.0940