The dualizing sheaf on first-order deformations of toric surface singularities (Q2317009)

The authors give an explicit description of the space \(T^1\) of first order infinitesimal deformations of two-dimensional cyclic quotient singularities that satisfy certain conditions on the compatibility with powers of dualizing sheaf, introduced by \textit{J. M. Wahl} [Math. Ann. 253, 241--262 (1980; Zbl 0431.14012)], \textit{J. Kollár} and \textit{N. I. Shepherd-Barron} [Invent. Math. 91, No. 2, 299--338 (1988; Zbl 0642.14008)] and \textit{E. Viehweg} [Quasi-projective moduli for polarized manifolds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (1995; Zbl 0844.14004)]; these deformations are called W-deformation, qG-deformation, and V-deformation, respectively. The result implies that these notions are different over Artinian base space. For the explicit calculation of infinitesimal deformations of these types, the authors give a description of a cyclic quotient \(S\) as toric varieties in terms of cone over an interval \([-A,B]\subset \mathbb Q\) with uniform denominators at the end, and put a natural \(\mathbb Z^2\)-grading on modules appearing in the calculations. Then the formulas of dimension of \(T^1_V(S)\), \(T^1_{qG}(S)\), \(T^1_{VW}(S)\) are expressed by \(A\) and \(B\), where a VW-deformation is both a V-deformation and a W-deformation. As an example, the authors show that if \(A=B=\frac{2}{5}\), then \(\dim T^1_{qG}(S)=0\), \(\dim T^1_{VW}(S)=1\), \(\dim T^1_{V}(S)=3\).