{"paper":{"title":"Line and rational curve arrangements, and Walther's inequality","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.AC"],"primary_cat":"math.AG","authors_text":"Alexandru Dimca, Gabriel Sticlaru","submitted_at":"2018-03-14T16:30:06Z","abstract_excerpt":"There are two invariants associated to any line arrangement: the freeness defect $\\nu(C)$ and an upper bound for it, denoted by $\\nu'(C)$, coming from a recent result by Uli Walther. We show that $\\nu'(C)$ is combinatorially determined, at least when the number of lines in $C$ is odd, while the same property is conjectural for $\\nu(C)$. In addition, we conjecture that the equality $\\nu(C)=\\nu'(C)$ holds if and only if the essential arrangement $C$ of $d$ lines has either a point of multiplicity $d-1$, or has only double and triple points. We prove both conjectures in some cases, in particular "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1803.05386","kind":"arxiv","version":4},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}