Numerical Terao's conjecture for plane curves with ordinary quasi-homogeneous singularities

Let C1,C2C_{1}, C_{2} be reduced curves in PC2\mathbb{P}^{2}_{\mathbb{C}} whose irreducible components are smooth and whose singularities are ordinary quasi-homogeneous singularities. For a curve CC, let W(C)W(C) denote its weak combinatorics, recording the numbers of irreducible components of each degree and the numbers of multiple intersections of each multiplicity. Numerical Terao's conjecture. If

W(C1)=W(C2)W(C_{1})=W(C_{2})

and C1C_{1} is free, then C2C_{2} is free. The conjecture asserts that freeness is determined by the weak combinatorics. It is false, specifically for triangular line arrangements, so the statement is refuted.

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Primary source

Piotr Pokora, “On Poincaré polynomials for plane curves with quasi-homogeneous singularities”, arXiv:2412.08436 (2025).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2403.16870, arXiv:2403.13377, arXiv:2312.13052, arXiv:2111.12349.

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