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Vanishing criterion for forms with exactly two noncontaining hyperplanes

Prove that for any complexified hyperplane arrangement K, any modular flat F of K, any isomorphism of arrangements ι: H ≅ K/F, and any linearly ordered multiset J of hyperplanes of K, if there exists a proper modular flat F′ of K contained in F such that J contains exactly two hyperplanes not containing F′, then the piecewise algebraic form ω_{K,ι,F,J} = ι^*((\overline{π}_F)_*(ω_{K,J})) on SFM[H] vanishes.

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Background

Section 3 defines, for a complexified hyperplane arrangement K in V, a modular flat F, an isomorphism of arrangements ι: H ≅ K/F, and an ordered multiset J of hyperplanes of K, the semi-algebraic form ω{K,ι,F,J} ∈ Ω{PA}(SFM[H], ℝ) via pushforward along the modular projection and pullback along ι.

Lemma \ref{lemmarelform} proves vanishing of ω_{K,ι,F,J} when, for some proper modular flat F′ ⊂ F, the multiset J has fewer than two hyperplanes not containing F′. The authors conjecture the analogous vanishing when J has exactly two such hyperplanes, generalizing a known statement in the braid case.

References

We were not able to prove a generalization of that statement in the setting of hyperplane arrangements so we leave it as a conjecture. Let $K, \iota, F, J$ be as above. If there exists a proper modular flat $F'$ of $K$ contained in $F$ and such that $J$ contains exactly $2$ hyperplanes not containing $F'$, then $\omega_{K, \iota, F, J}$ is zero.

Matroid complexes and Orlik-Solomon algebras (2506.15048 - Coron, 18 Jun 2025) in Section 3 (The geometry), immediately after Lemma \ref{lemmarelform}