Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 ; Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Abstract:
We study the Gauss-Manin connection for the moduli space of an arrangement of complex hyperplanes in the cohomology of a complex rank one local system. We define formal Gauss-Manin connection matrices in the Aomoto complex and prove that, for all arrangements and all local systems, these formal connection matrices specialize to Gauss-Manin connection matrices.