The homology groups of finite cyclic covering of line arrangement complement

Abstract

In this paper, we study the first homology group of finite cyclic covering of complex line arrangement complement. We show that this first integral homology group is torsion-free under certain condition similar to the one used by Cohen-Dimca-Orlik. In particular, this includes the case of the Milnor fiber, which generalizes the previous results obtained by Williams for complexified line arrangement to any complex line arrangement.