A counterexample to Orlik’s conjecture

A counterexample to Orlik’s conjecture
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by Paul H. Edelman and Victor Reiner PDF

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 118 (1993), 927-929 Request permission

We present a counterexample to the conjecture by Orlik that the restriction of a free hyperplane arrangement to one of its hyperplanes is free.

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