Multiplicativity of the $\mathcal{I}$-invariant and topology of glued arrangements

Abstract

The invariant $\mathcal{I}(\mathcal{A},\xi,\gamma)$ was first introduced by E. Artal, V. Florens and the author. Inspired by the idea of G. Rybnikov, we obtain a multiplicativity theorem of this invariant under the gluing of two arrangements along a triangle. An application of this theorem is to prove that the extended Rybnikov arrangements form an ordered Zariski pair (i.e. two arrangements with the same combinatorial information and different ordered topologies). Finally, we extend this method to a family of arrangements and thus we obtain a method to construct new examples of Zariski pairs.