A bound for crystallographic arrangements

Abstract

A crystallographic arrangement is a set of linear hyperplanes satisfying a certain integrality property and decomposing the space into simplicial cones. Crystallographic arrangements were completely classified in a series of papers by Heckenberger and the author. However, this classification is based on two computer proofs checking millions of cases. In the present paper, we prove without using a computer that, up to equivalence, there are only finitely many irreducible crystallographic arrangements in each rank greater than two.