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In this article, we prove in the main theorem that, there is a bijection between the isomorphism classes of a certain type of real hyperplane arrangements on the one hand, and the antipodal pairs of convex cones of an associated discriminantal arrangement on the other hand. The type of hyperplane arrangements considered and the isomorphism classes have been defined precisely. As a consequence, we enumerate such isomorphism classes by computing the characteristic polynomial of the discriminantal arrangement. With a certain restriction, the enumerated value is shown to be independent of the discriminantal arrangement. Later we observe that the restriction we impose on the type of hyperplane arrangements is a mild one and that this conditional restriction is quite generic. Moreover the restriction is defined in terms of a normal system being concurrency free which is a generic condition. We also discuss two examples of normal systems which are not concurrency free in the last section and enumerate the number of isomorphism classes.
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Anil Kumar, C.P. On the enumeration of a certain type of hyperplane arrangements. Proc Math Sci 131, 35 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12044-021-00618-7
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