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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 30 (2024), 1643-1647

  

Marco Golla

On line arrangements with odd multiplicities

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Published: November 8, 2024.
Keywords: Line arrangements, smooth 4-manifolds, Rokhlin's theorem, embedded surfaces.
Subject [2010]: 14N20, 52C30, 57K40.

Abstract
We obstruct the existence of certain complex line arrangements with singular points of odd multiplicity using topological arguments on locally-flat spheres in 4-manifolds. As a corollary, we show that there is no line arrangement comprising 13 lines and with only triple points.

Acknowledgements

I was supported by the Etoile Montante grant PSyCo of the Region Pays de la Loire.


Author information

Marco Golla
CNRS and Laboratoire de Mathematiques Jean Leray
Nantes Universite
France

marco.golla@univ-nantes.fr