Complex hyperbolic orbifolds and Lefschetz fibrations

Abstract

A class of complex hyperbolic lattices in PU(2,1) called the Deligne-Mostow lattices has been reinterpreted by Hirzebruch and others in terms of line arrangements. They use branched covers over a suitable blow up of the complete quadrilateral arrangement of lines in projective 2-space to construct the complex hyperbolic surfaces over the orbifolds associated to the lattices. Fundamental domains for these lattices have been built by Pasquinelli. Here we show how the fundamental domains can be interpreted in terms of line arrangements as above. This parallel is then applied in two contexts. Dashyan uses Hirzebruch's construction to build infinitely many representations of 3-manifolds. Here we show that his construction can be generalised to all of the Deligne-Mostow lattices and more representations can be built. Wells shows that two of the Deligne-Mostow lattices in PU(2,1) can be seen as hybrids of lattices in PU(1,1). Here we show that he implicitly uses the line arrangement and we complete his analysis to all possible pairs of lines. In this way, we show that three more Deligne-Mostow lattices can be given as hybrids.