Numerical Terao's conjecture for line arrangements

Let F\mathbb{F} be a fixed field and let LPF2\mathcal{L} \subset \mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{F}} be an arrangement of dd lines. Its weak-combinatorics is the vector

W(L)=(d;t2,,td),W(\mathcal{L})=(d;t_{2},\ldots,t_{d}),

where tit_i denotes the number of ii-fold intersection points, with zero entries for i>m(L)i>m(\mathcal{L}) omitted, where m(L)m(\mathcal{L}) is the maximal intersection multiplicity. A line arrangement is free when its associated derivation module is free.

Numerical Terao's conjecture. If L1,L2PF2\mathcal{L}_{1},\mathcal{L}_{2}\subset\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{F}} are line arrangements satisfying

W(L1)=W(L2),W(\mathcal{L}_{1})=W(\mathcal{L}_{2}),

then L1\mathcal{L}_{1} is free if and only if L2\mathcal{L}_{2} is free.

This asks whether freeness can be determined by the numerical data of intersection points, which is weaker than the full intersection lattice. The source presents it as a weaker version of Terao's conjecture; no resolution is given.

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Primary source

Lukas Kühne, Dante Luber and Piotr Pokora, “On the numerical Terao's conjecture and Ziegler pairs for line arrangements”, arXiv:2407.07070 (2025).

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