The freeness of Shi-Catalan arrangements
arXiv:1012.5884
Abstract
Let be a finite Weyl group and $\A$ be the corresponding Weyl arrangement. A deformation of $\A$ is an affine arrangement which is obtained by adding to each hyperplane $H\in\A$ several parallel translations of by the positive root (and its integer multiples) perpendicular to . We say that a deformation is -equivariant if the number of parallel hyperplanes of each hyperplane $H\in \A$ depends only on the -orbit of . We prove that the conings of the -equivariant deformations are free arrangements under a Shi-Catalan condition and give a formula for the number of chambers. This generalizes Yoshinaga's theorem conjectured by Edelman-Reiner.
arXiv comment12 pages