On the geography of line arrangements

Abstract

This is a short note on various results about the combinatorial properties of line arrangements in terms of the Chern numbers of the corresponding log surfaces. This resembles the study of the geography of surfaces of general type. We prove some new results about the distribution of Chern slopes, we prove a connection between their accumulation points and the accumulation points of linear $H$-constants on the plane, and we present two open problems in relation to geography over $\mathbb Q$ and over $\mathbb C$.