Equations for Chow and Hilbert quotients

DOI10.2140/ANT.2010.4.855MaRDI QIDQ625348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Angela Gibney, Diane Maclagan

Publication date 16 February 2011

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1801

zbMATH Keywords

Chow quotientgeometric invariant theoryHilbert quotientmoduli of curvesphylogenetic treestoric geometrytropical geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: We give explicit equations for the Chow and Hilbert quotients of a projective scheme X by the action of an algebraic torus T in an auxiliary toric variety. As a consequence we provide GIT descriptions of these canonical quotients, and obtain other GIT quotients of X by variation of GIT quotient. We apply these results to find equations for the moduli space �ar{M}_{0,n} of stable genus zero n-pointed curves as a subvariety of a smooth toric variety defined via tropical methods.

Review text

The main theorem in this paper gives explicit equations for the Chow and Hilbert quotients of a projective scheme by the action of an algebraic torus. Applications include providing a GIT description of these quotients as well as giving equations for the moduli space of stable genus zero \(n\)-pointed curves as a smooth toric variety defined via tropical methods. The paper is very thorough and includes numerous useful examples. It includes the necessary tools and definitions from toric varieties, tropical geometry, and Chow and Hilbert quotients and the authors conclude with several open questions. The paper is well-written and should be of interest to a variety of researches in algebraic geometry.

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