Configurations of linear subspaces and rational invariants (Q1590949)

This paper proves that quotients \((\text{Gr}_{n,2} (\mathbb{C}))^s/GL_n(\mathbb{C})\) are birationally equivalent to the complex projective space, where \(\text{Gr}_{n,2}\) is a Grassmannian of planes in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) and the group action is the natural diagonal action. This settles a conjecture of Dolgachev. The method is constructing normal forms for algebraic group actions, which shows birational equivalence to varieties of the form \((GL_d (\mathbb{C}))^k /GL_d(\mathbb{C})\) and then explicit computation of invariants of the latter varieties.