Permutohedral spaces and the Cox ring of the moduli space of stable pointed rational curves (Q1938033)

This paper under review studies the Cox ring of the moduli space of stable pointed rational curves \(\overline{M}_{0,n}\) via the closely related permutohedral (or Losev-Manin) space \(\overline{L}_{n-2}\) (there are \(n\choose 2\) of them according to the choice of poles). The main result is that for each choice of poles, the Kapranov morphism \[ f:\overline{M}_{0,n}\longrightarrow \overline{L}_{n-2} \] induces an embedding of \(\mathrm{Cox}(\overline{L}_{n-2})\) into \(\mathrm{Cox}(\overline{M}_{0,n})\) as a polynomial subring, thus giving collections of boundary divisors that do not have relations in \(\mathrm{Cox}(\overline{M}_{0,n})\). As an application, the author show that all relations in degrees of \(\mathrm{Cox}(\overline{M}_{0,6})\) arising from certain pull-backs from projective spaces are generated by the Plücker relations.