Locally heavy hyperplanes in multiarrangements

Hyperplane arrangements of rank 3 admitting an unbalanced Ziegler restriction are known to fulfill Terao's conjecture. This long-standing conjecture asks whether the freeness of an arrangement is determined by its combinatorics. In this note we prove that arrangements which admit a locally heavy flag satisfy Terao's conjecture which is a generalization of the statement above to arbitrary dimension. To this end we extend results characterizing the freeness of multiarrangements with a heavy hyperplane to those satisfying the weaker notion of a locally heavy hyperplane. As a corollary we give a new proof that irreducible arrangements with a generic hyperplane are totally nonfree. In another application we show that an irreducible multiarrangement of rank 3 with at least two locally heavy hyperplanes is not free.     

Heavy hyperplanes in multiarrangements and their freeness

Only few categories of free arrangements are known in which Terao’s conjecture holds. One such category consists of 3-arrangements with unbalanced Ziegler restrictions. In this paper, we generalize this result to arbitrary dimensional arrangements in terms of flags by introducing unbalanced multiarrangements. For that purpose, we generalize several freeness criterions for simple arrangements, including Yoshinaga’s freeness criterion, to unbalanced multiarrangements.     

Inductively Free Multiderivations of Braid Arrangements

The reflection arrangement of a Coxeter group is a well-known instance of a free hyperplane arrangement. In 2002, Terao showed that equipped with a constant multiplicity each such reflection arrangement gives rise to a free multiarrangement. In this note we show that this multiarrangment satisfies the stronger property of inductive freeness in case the Coxeter group is of type A.     

Modules of Differential Operators of Order 2 on Coxeter Arrangements

The collection of reflection hyperplanes of a finite reflection group is called a Coxeter arrangement. A Coxeter arrangement is known to be free. K. Saito has constructed a basis consisting of invariant elements for the module of derivations on a Coxeter arrangement. We study the module of \(\mathcal{A}\) -differential operators as a generalization of the study of the module of \(\mathcal{A}\) -derivations. In this article, we prove that the modules of differential operators of order 2 on Coxeter arrangements of types A, B and D are free, by exhibiting their bases. We also prove that the modules cannot have bases consisting of only invariant elements. Two keys for the proof of freeness are the “Cauchy-Sylvester theorem on compound determinants” and the “Saito-Holm criterion for freeness.”     

Characterization of a free arrangement and conjecture of Edelman and Reiner

We consider a hyperplane arrangement in a vector space of dimension four or higher. In this case, the freeness of the arrangement is characterized by properties around a fixed hyperplane. As an application, we prove the freeness of cones over certain truncated affine Weyl arrangements which was conjectured by Edelman and Reiner.     

A pattern avoidance criterion for free inversion arrangements

We show that the hyperplane arrangement of a coconvex set in a finite root system is free if and only if it is free in corank 4. As a consequence, we show that the inversion arrangement of a Weyl group element w is free if and only if w avoids a finite list of root system patterns. As a key part of the proof, we use a recent theorem of Abe and Yoshinaga to show that if the root system does not contain any factors of type C or F, then Peterson translation of coconvex sets preserves freeness. This also allows us to give a Kostant–Shapiro–Steinberg rule for the coexponents of a free inversion arrangement in any type.     

Derivation radical subspace arrangements

In this note we study modules of derivations on collections of linear subspaces in a finite dimensional vector space. The central aim is to generalize the notion of freeness from hyperplane arrangements to subspace arrangements. We call this generalization ‘derivation radical’. We classify all coordinate subspace arrangements that are derivation radical and show that certain subspace arrangements of the Braid arrangement are derivation radical. We conclude by proving that under an algebraic condition the subspace arrangement consisting of all codimension c intersections, where c is fixed, of a free hyperplane arrangement are derivation radical.     

Generalized splines and graphic arrangements

We define a chain complex for generalized splines on graphs, analogous to that introduced by Billera and refined by Schenck–Stillman for splines on polyhedral complexes. The hyperhomology of this chain complex yields bounds on the projective dimension of the ring of generalized splines. We apply this construction to the module of derivations of a graphic multi-arrangement, yielding homological criteria for bounding its projective dimension and determining freeness. As an application, we show that a graphic arrangement admits a free constant multiplicity if and only if it splits as a product of braid arrangements.     

An Algorithm for Reducibility of 3-arrangements

We consider a central hyperplane arrangement in a three-dimensional vector space. The definition of characteristic form to a hyperplane arrangement is given and we could make use of characteristic form to judge the reducibility of this arrangement. In addition, the relationship between the reducibility and freeness of a hyperplane arrangement is given     

Signed graphs and the freeness of the Weyl subarrangements of type Bℓ

A Weyl arrangement is the hyperplane arrangement defined by a root system. Saito proved that every Weyl arrangement is free. The Weyl subarrangements of type $A_{\ell }$ are represented by simple graphs. Stanley gave a characterization of freeness for this type of arrangements in terms of their graph. In addition, the Weyl subarrangements of type $B_{\ell }$ can be represented by signed graphs. A characterization of freeness for them is not known. However, characterizations of freeness for a few restricted classes are known. For instance, Edelman and Reiner characterized the freeness of the arrangements between type $A_{\ell -1}$ and type $B_{\ell }$. In this paper, we give a characterization of the freeness and supersolvability of the Weyl subarrangements of type $B_{\ell }$ under certain assumption.     

On $$A_1^2$$ A 1 2 restrictions of Weyl arrangements

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics - Let $$\mathcal {A}$$ be a Weyl arrangement in an $$\ell $$ -dimensional Euclidean space. The freeness of restrictions of $$\mathcal {A}$$ was first settled by a...     

Limit distributions of random matrices

We study limit distributions of independent random matrices as well as limit joint distributions of their blocks under normalized partial traces composed with classical expectation. In particular, we are concerned with the ensemble of symmetric blocks of independent Hermitian random matrices which are asymptotically free, asymptotically free from diagonal deterministic matrices, and whose norms are uniformly bounded almost surely. This class contains symmetric blocks of unitarily invariant Hermitian random matrices whose asymptotic distributions are compactly supported probability measures on the real line. Our approach is based on the concept of matricial freeness which is a generalization of freeness in free probability. We show that the associated matricially free Gaussian operators provide a unified framework for studying the limit distributions of sums and products of independent rectangular random matrices, including non-Hermitian Gaussian matrices and matrices of Wishart type.     

The Stability of the Family of B 2-Type Arrangements

We introduce the family of B ₂-type arrangements as a generalization of the classical Coxeter arrangement of type B ₂ and consider the stability and the freeness of it. We show the freeness and (semi)stability are determined by the combinatorics. Moreover, we give a partial answer to the 4-shift problem, which is a conjecture on the combinatorics and geometry induced from the B ₂-type arrangements.     

Primitive noetherian algebras with big centers

Recent work of Artin, Small, and Zhang extends Grothendieck's classical commutative algebra result on generic freeness to a large family of non-commutative algebras. Over such an algebra, any finitely-generated module becomes free after localization at a suitable central element. In this paper, a construction is given of primitive noetherian algebras, finitely generated over the integers or over algebraic closures of finite fields, such that the faithful, simple modules don't satisfy such a freeness condition. These algebras also fail to satisfy a non-commutative version of the Nullstellensatz.

     

On embeddability and stresses of graphs

Gluck has proven that triangulated 2-spheres are generically 3-rigid. Equivalently, planar graphs are generically 3-stress free. We show that already the K ₅-minor freeness guarantees the stress freeness. More generally, we prove that every K _r+2-minor free graph is generically r-stress free for 1≤r≤4. (This assertion is false for r≥6.) Some further extensions are discussed. Supported by an I.S.F. grant.     

The characterizations of a semicircle law by the certain freeness in a C*-probability space

In usual probability theory, various characterizations of the Gaussian law have been obtained. For instance, independence of the sample mean and the sample variance of independently identically distributed random variables characterizes the Gaussian law and the property of remaining independent under rotations characterizes the Gaussian random variables. In this paper, we consider the free analogue of such a kind of characterizations replacing independence by freeness. We show that freeness of the certain pair of the linear form and the quadratic form in freely identically distributed noncommutative random variables, which covers the case for the sample mean and the sample variance, characterizes the semicircle law. Moreover we give the alternative proof for Nica's result that the property of remaining free under rotations characterizes a semicircular system. Our proof is more direct and straightforward one. Received: 12 February 1997 / Revised version: 16 June 1998     

Asymptotic properties of random matrices and pseudomatrices

We study the asymptotics of sums of matricially free random variables, called random pseudomatrices, and we compare it with that of random matrices with block-identical variances. For objects of both types we find the limit joint distributions of blocks and give their Hilbert space realizations, using operators called ‘matricially free Gaussian operators’. In particular, if the variance matrices are symmetric, the asymptotics of symmetric blocks of random pseudomatrices agrees with that of symmetric random blocks. We also show that blocks of random pseudomatrices are ‘asymptotically matricially free’ whereas the corresponding symmetric random blocks are ‘asymptotically symmetrically matricially free’, where symmetric matricial freeness is obtained from matricial freeness by an operation of symmetrization. Finally, we show that row blocks of square, block-lower-triangular and block-diagonal pseudomatrices are asymptotically free, monotone independent and boolean independent, respectively.     

自由Fisher信息量与合并自由

在算子值非交换概率空间中引入算子值自由Fisher信息量的概念,这一定义是对D.Voiculescu在有迹的von Neumann代数上定义的自由Fisher信息量的推广．证明了算子值自由Fisher信息量与合并自由性是密切相关的,即证明了若干个算子值随机变量的自由Fisher信息量的可加性等价于这些随机变量的合并自由性．并且也类似地得到了Cramer-Rao不等式．     

On the Freeness of 3-Arrangements

Hyperplane arrangements in a three-dimensional vector spaceare considered in this paper. A characterization of the freenessof such an arrangement is given in terms of the characteristicpolynomial and a restricted multiarrangement. As an application,the freeness of cones over certain two-dimensional affine arrangementsis proved. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 52C35 (primary),32S22 (secondary).     

On a class of free Lévy laws related to a regression problem

The free Meixner laws arise as the distributions of orthogonal polynomials with constant-coefficient recursions. We show that these are the laws of the free pairs of random variables which have linear regressions and quadratic conditional variances when conditioned with respect to their sum. We apply this result to describe free Lévy processes with quadratic conditional variances, and to prove a converse implication related to asymptotic freeness of random Wishart matrices.