Freeness for restriction arrangements of the extended Shi and Catalan arrangements

Abstract

The extended Shi and Catalan arrangements are well investigated arrangements. In this paper, we prove that the cone of the extended Catalan arrangement of type A is always hereditarily free, while we determine the dimension in which the cone of the extended Shi arrangement of type A is hereditarily free. For this purpose, using digraphs, we define a class of arrangements which is closed under restriction, and which contains the extended Shi and Catalan arrangements. We also characterize the freeness for the cone of this arrangement by graphical conditions.