Compactifications of reductive groups as moduli stacks of bundles

Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Algebraic monoids (20M32)

Abstract: Let G be a split reductive group. We introduce the moduli problem of "bundle chains" parametrizing framed principal G-bundles on chains of lines. Any fan supported in a Weyl chamber determines a stability condition on bundle chains. Its moduli stack provides an equivariant toroidal compactification of G. All toric orbifolds may be thus obtained. Moreover, we get a canonical compactification of any semisimple G, which agrees with the wonderful compactification in the adjoint case, but which in other cases is an orbifold. Finally, we describe the connections with Losev-Manin's spaces of weighted pointed curves and with Kausz's compactification of GL(n).

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For a split connected reductive group \(G\) there is a well-studied notion of toroidal compactifications of \(G\), see e.g.\ [\textit{D. A. Timashev}, Sb. Math. 194, No. 4, 589--616 (2003; Zbl 1074.14043); translation from Mat. Sb. 194, No. 4, 119--146 (2003)]. A new viewpoint on these compactifications via moduli theory is presented in the paper under review.NEWLINENEWLINEMore precisely, a \textit{chain of framed bundles} is defined as a \(\mathbb{G}_m\)-equivariant principal \(G\)-bundle over a chain of \(n+1\) projective lines equipped with the standard \(\mathbb{G}_m\)-action such that the intersection points of the lines are fixed and the fibers at the two remaining fixed points \(p_{\pm}\) are \(\mathbb{G}_m\)-invariantly trivialized (i.e., identified with \(G\)). Such a framed bundle chain is determined up to an isomorphism by a collection \((\beta_1,\dots,\beta_n)\in\Lambda^n\), where \(\Lambda\) is the cocharacter lattice of a split maximal torus \(T\subset G\) and \(\beta_i\) define the \(\mathbb{G}_m\)-action in the fibers over the intersection points. The sequence \((\beta_1,\dots,\beta_n)\in\Lambda^n\) is determined up to the action of the Weyl group \(W=N_G(T)/Z_G(T)\). A notion of stability for chains of framed bundles is defined by a choice of a simplicial fan \(\Sigma\) supported in the positive Weyl chamber \(\Lambda^+_{\mathbb Q}\) and of nonzero lattice vectors \(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_N\) on the rays of \(\Sigma\): a framed bundle chain is \textit{\(\Sigma\)-stable} if, up to the \(W\)-action, \(\beta_1,\dots,\beta_n\) is a subsequence of \(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_N\) (in the same order) corresponding to the rays of some \(n\)-dimensional cone \(\sigma\in\Sigma\).NEWLINENEWLINEIt is proved that \(\Sigma\)-stable framed bundle chains are represented by a smooth separated tame Artin stack of finite presentation \({\mathcal M}_G(\Sigma)\), which is proper if and only if \(\Sigma\) covers the whole \(\Lambda^+_{\mathbb Q}\). The coarse moduli space \(M_G(\Sigma)\) of \({\mathcal M}_G(\Sigma)\) is the toroidal spherical \((G\times G)\)-equivariant embedding of \(G\) corresponding to the uncolored fan \(w_0\Sigma\), where \(w_0\) is the longest element in \(W\). Each toroidal embedding of \(G\) with quotient singularities, in particular, each toric orbifold (for \(G=T\)) arises in this way. An alternative construction of \({\mathcal M}_G(\Sigma)\) as a global quotient by a torus action of an open subset in a reductive algebraic monoid generalizing \textit{E. B. Vinberg}'s enveloping semigroup [in: Lie groups and Lie algebras: E. B. Dynkin's seminar. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. 145--182 (1995; Zbl 0840.20041)] is considered. For \(G=\mathrm{PGL}_n\) and \(\Sigma\) the fan with the single maximal cone \(\Lambda^+_{\mathbb Q}\) and with the primitive lattice vectors (fundamental coweigths) on the rays, the closure of \(T\) in \({\mathcal M}_G(\Sigma)\) is the Losev-Manin moduli space of genus zero weighted pointed stable curves [\textit{A. Losev} and \textit{Y. Manin}, Mich. Math. J. 48, 443--472 (2000; Zbl 1078.14536)]. The respective functor from weighted pointed stable curves to framed bundle chains is described. A relation with \textit{I. Kausz}'s compactification of \(\mathrm{GL}_n\) [Doc. Math. 5, 553--594 (2000; Zbl 0971.14029)] is discussed.

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