Complete intersections in spherical varieties

DOI10.1007/S00029-016-0271-9MaRDI QIDQ730323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 27 December 2016

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03155

arithmetic and geometric genus complete intersection moment polytope Newton-Okounkov polytope spherical variety virtual polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complete intersections (14M10) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27)

Abstract: Let G be a complex reductive algebraic group. We study complete intersections in a spherical homogeneous space G/H defined by a generic collection of sections from G-invariant linear systems. Whenever nonempty, all such complete intersections are smooth varieties. We compute their arithmetic genus as well as some of their h^{p,0} numbers. The answers are given in terms of the moment polytopes and Newton-Okounkov polytopes associated to G-invariant linear systems. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition on a collection of linear systems so that the corresponding generic complete intersection is nonempty. This criterion applies to arbitrary quasi-projective varieties (i.e. not necessarily spherical homogeneous spaces). When the spherical homogeneous space under consideration is a complex torus (C^*)^n, our results specialize to well-known results from the Newton polyhedra theory and toric varieties.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex reductive algebraic group and let \(G/H\) be a spherical homogeneous space. For any \(G\)-invariant linear system on \(G/H\) one can consider the moment polytope and the so-called Newton-Okounkov polytope, the latter is actually fibered over the former with string polytopes as fibers. In the paper under review the definitions of such rational convex polytopes are recalled and appropriate references are given. Let \(E_1,\ldots,E_k\) be \(G\)-invariant linear systems on \(G/H\). The authors give a necessary and sufficient condition on \(E_1,\ldots,E_k\) such that a generic choice of sections in \(E_1,\ldots,E_k\) define a non-empty complete intersection \(X_k\) in \(G/H\). In this case, they provide a formula for the arithmetic genus of the, necessarily smooth, generic complete intersection \(X_k\). All is expressed in combinatorial terms by formulas which involve the number of integral points in the relative interior of suitable rational convex polytopes defined starting from the moment polytopes and the Newton-Okounkov polytopes of \(E_1,\ldots,E_k\).

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