arXiv · alg-geom/9711016
Boundary Manifolds of Line Arrangements
Abstract
In this paper we describe the complement of real line arrangements in the complex plane in terms of the boundary three-manifold of the line arrangement. We show that the boundary manifold of any line arrangement is a graph manifold with Seifert fibered vertex manifolds, and depends only on the incidence graph of the arrangement. When the line arrangement is defined over the real numbers, we show that the homotopy type of the complement is determined by the incidence graph together with orderings on the edges emanating from each vertex.
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Eriko Hironaka. 1997-11-12. Boundary Manifolds of Line Arrangements. https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9711016
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