Flag Hilbert–Poincaré series and Igusa zeta functions of hyperplane arrangements

Abstract

We introduce and study a class of multivariate rational functions associated with hyperplane arrangements, called flag Hilbert–Poincaré series. These series are intimately connected with Igusa local zeta functions of products of linear polynomials, and their motivic and topological relatives. Our main results include a self-reciprocity result for central arrangements defined over fields of characteristic zero. We also prove combinatorial formulae for a specialization of the flag Hilbert–Poincaré series for irreducible Coxeter arrangements of types A, B, and D in terms of total partitions of the respective types. We show that a different specialization of the flag Hilbert–Poincaré series, which we call the coarse flag Hilbert–Poincaré series, exhibits intriguing nonnegativity features and—in the case of Coxeter arrangements—connections with Eulerian polynomials. For numerous classes and examples of hyperplane arrangements, we determine their (coarse) flag Hilbert–Poincaré series. Some computations were aided by a SageMath package we developed.