Monodromy of supersolvable toric arrangements

Christin Bibby; Daniel C. Cohen; Emanuele Delucchi

arxiv: 2510.00166 · v2 · submitted 2025-09-30 · 🧮 math.AT · math.CO

Monodromy of supersolvable toric arrangements

Christin Bibby , Daniel C. Cohen , Emanuele Delucchi This is my paper

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keywords supersolvable arrangementstoric arrangementsmonodromyArtin braid groupfundamental groupcohomology ringlower central series

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The monodromy of supersolvable toric arrangement bundles factors through the Artin braid group.

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The paper examines topological properties of supersolvable abelian arrangements, with special attention to the toric case. It shows that the complement sits in a tower of fiber bundles connected to classical configuration spaces. For supersolvable toric arrangements the monodromy of these bundles factors through the Artin braid group; for strictly supersolvable ones the factorization passes further through the pure braid group. The pure-braid factorization supplies explicit descriptions of several invariants of the complement, among them its cohomology ring and the Lie algebra of the lower central series of its fundamental group.

Core claim

In the toric case, the monodromy of a supersolvable arrangement bundle factors through the Artin braid group, and that of a strictly supersolvable arrangement bundle factors further through the Artin pure braid group. The latter factorization is used to determine a number of invariants of the complement of a strictly supersolvable arrangement, including the cohomology ring and the lower central series Lie algebra of the fundamental group.

What carries the argument

Tower of fiber bundles over the arrangement complement whose relation to classical configuration-space bundles produces the braid-group factorization of monodromy.

If this is right

The cohomology ring of the complement of a strictly supersolvable toric arrangement is determined by the corresponding pure braid group.
The lower central series Lie algebra of the fundamental group is likewise read off from the pure braid group.
The fundamental group of the complement admits a presentation or filtration coming from the braid-group factorization.
Topological invariants of the complement become accessible by transferring known calculations from classical braid groups.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same tower construction might yield computable invariants for supersolvable arrangements that are not toric.
The factorization supplies a new route for comparing fundamental groups of arrangement complements with those of configuration spaces.
Explicit presentations obtained this way could be used to test conjectures about the formality or rationality of arrangement complements.

Load-bearing premise

The complement lies in a tower of fiber bundles whose relation to configuration-space bundles permits the monodromy to factor through the Artin braid group.

What would settle it

A concrete supersolvable toric arrangement whose monodromy representation on the fiber fails to factor through any homomorphism to the Artin braid group would refute the claim.

read the original abstract

We study topological aspects of supersolvable abelian arrangements, toric arrangements in particular. The complement of such an arrangement sits atop a tower of fiber bundles, and we investigate the relationship between these bundles and bundles involving classical configuration spaces. In the toric case, we show that the monodromy of a supersolvable arrangement bundle factors through the Artin braid group, and that of a strictly supersolvable arrangement bundle factors further through the Artin pure braid group. The latter factorization is particularly informative -- we use it to determine a number of invariants of the complement of a strictly supersolvable arrangement, including the cohomology ring and the lower central series Lie algebra of the fundamental group.

Editorial analysis

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The paper shows that monodromy for supersolvable toric arrangement bundles factors through Artin braid groups, with the strictly supersolvable case going through the pure braid group, and then uses this to compute the cohomology ring and lower central series Lie algebra of the complement.

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The main point is that for supersolvable toric arrangements the monodromy of the bundle factors through the Artin braid group, and for strictly supersolvable ones it factors further through the pure braid group. The authors then apply the stricter factorization to get explicit descriptions of the cohomology ring and the lower central series Lie algebra of the fundamental group of the complement. This is the concrete payoff of the work. The tower of fiber bundles on the complement is a standard setup, but connecting it directly to classical configuration-space bundles lets the monodromy factor in a usable way. The toric case brings some new technical points compared with ordinary hyperplane arrangements, and the factorization appears to rest on ordinary properties of Artin groups rather than anything exotic. The logic looks consistent and avoids circularity by starting from the bundle structure and known braid-group facts. The stress-test turned up no internal contradictions or missing hypotheses in the stated claims. One minor soft spot is that supersolvability is a fairly restrictive condition, so the results apply to a limited family of arrangements; that narrows the immediate scope but does not undermine the claims inside that family. The abstract is brief on proof details, yet the overall approach matches standard techniques in the literature on arrangement complements. This paper is for algebraic topologists and combinatorialists who already work with toric arrangements or braid-group actions on fundamental groups. A reader comfortable with those tools will find the invariant calculations useful and checkable. I would send it to peer review. The results are specific, the method is grounded, and the computations are the sort of thing that can be verified or extended by specialists.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript examines supersolvable toric arrangements and their complements. It describes a tower of fiber bundles for the complement and relates these to bundles over classical configuration spaces. The main results are that the monodromy of a supersolvable arrangement bundle factors through the Artin braid group, and for strictly supersolvable cases, it factors through the Artin pure braid group. These factorizations are applied to compute the cohomology ring and the lower central series Lie algebra of the fundamental group of the complement.

Significance. If the results hold, this work provides a concrete link between toric arrangement complements and classical braid groups, allowing explicit computation of topological invariants such as the cohomology ring and the associated graded Lie algebra of the fundamental group. The use of bundle towers and monodromy factorizations builds on established techniques in arrangement theory and offers a systematic way to extract invariants that are often hard to access directly.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their positive summary of the manuscript and for recognizing the significance of the link between supersolvable toric arrangement complements and classical braid groups. We appreciate the recommendation for minor revision. The report lists no specific major comments under the MAJOR COMMENTS section.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on bundle tower and standard braid group facts

full rationale

The paper establishes a tower of fiber bundles for complements of supersolvable toric arrangements and relates these to classical configuration-space bundles. From this structure it derives the claimed monodromy factorizations through the Artin braid group (and pure braid group for the strictly supersolvable case) using standard properties of these groups. No step reduces by definition to its own inputs, no parameters are fitted and then renamed as predictions, and no load-bearing premise rests solely on a self-citation chain. The central results follow from the external topological facts about arrangement complements and braid groups, rendering the derivation self-contained against independent benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claims rest on the domain assumption that arrangement complements form towers of fiber bundles whose monodromy can be related to classical configuration space bundles. No free parameters or invented entities are visible from the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption The complement of such an arrangement sits atop a tower of fiber bundles
This is the foundational setup stated in the abstract for investigating the topological aspects and monodromy.

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In the toric case, we show that the monodromy of a supersolvable arrangement bundle factors through the Artin braid group, and that of a strictly supersolvable arrangement bundle factors further through the Artin pure braid group.
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the LCS Lie algebra of the fundamental group is an iterated semidirect product of free Lie algebras, determined by the sequence of homological root homomorphisms and the infinitesimal pure braid relations.

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