On the birational geometry of spaces of complete forms. II: Skew-forms (Q2285284)

This paper continues the author's study of the birational geometry of moduli spaces arising from linear algebra. The moduli space under consideration here is the space of complete skew-forms \(\mathcal A(n)\). This is a compactification of the space of skew-symmetric linear maps \(V \rightarrow V\) modulo scalars, where \(V\) is a vector space of dimension \(n+1\). The main results of the paper are -- computations of the cones of nef and effecitve divisors on \(\mathcal A(n)\) (Theorem 1.1) -- the computation of a set of minimal generators of the Cox ring of \(\mathcal A(n)\) (Theorem 1.1) -- the determination of the Mori chamber decomposition and stable base locus decomposition for the effective cones of \(\mathcal A(n)\) for \(n \in \{4,5,6,7,8\}\) (Theorem 1.2) The basic ingredients of the proofs are -- the description of \(\mathcal A(n)\) as an iterated blowup of \(\mathbb P(\bigwedge^2 V)\) along the secant varieties of the Grassmannian \(\mathrm{Gr}(1,n)\) -- the structure of \(\mathcal A(n)\) as a wonderful variety for the natural action of \(\mathrm{SL}(n+1)\). For part I see [the author, ``On the birational geometry of spaces of complete forms. I: Collineations and quadrics''. \url{arXiv:1803.09161}].