Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-1-2002

Abstract

For a triple of complex hyperplane arrangements, there is a well-known long exact sequence relating the cohomology of the complements. We observe that this result extends to certain local coefficient systems, and use this extension to study the characteristic varieties of arrangements. We show that the first characteristic variety may contain components that are translated by characters of any order, thereby answering a question of A. Suciu.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

First Page

3025

Last Page

3031

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