On stratified Mukai flops (Q2474609)

By results of \textit{Y. Namikawa} [Adv. Stud. in Pure Math. 45, 75--116 (2006; Zbl 1117.14018)] and the second author [Adv. Math. 213, No. 1, 165--182 (2007; Zbl 1120.14039)] any symplectic resolution of a closure of a nilpotent orbit can be decomposed into a sequence of stratified Mukai flops of type \(A\), \(D\) or \(E_6\). Flops of type \(A\) are given by the cotangent bundles of dual Grassmannians \(T^*G(k,V) \mapsto T^*G(k,V))\), flops of type \(D\) are similarly given by the cotangent bundles to the two connected components of the orthogonal Grassmannian \(G_{iso}(k,2k)\), and the flops of type \(E_6\) are of two types corresponding to pairs of roots \((\alpha_1,\alpha_6)\) (type \(E_{6,I}\)) and \((\alpha_3,\alpha_5)\) (type \(E_{6,II}\)). In the previous papers [\textit{P.-E. Chaput}, ``On Mukai flops for Scorza varieties'', \url{math.AG/0601734}] and [\textit{B. Fu}, loc. cit.], the authors showed that the graph of a stratified Mukai flop is smooth, thus giving a resolution of the flop. In this paper they give a description of a resolution of the stratified Mukai flop of type \(E_{6,I}\) (which works also for flops of type \(D\), see p. 1059) as sequences of blow ups with smooth centers (Theorem 1). This extends a previous result of \textit{E. Markman} [J. Algebr. Geom. 10, No. 4, 623--694 (2001; Zbl 1074.14525)], who constructed by a similar way resolutions of the stratified Mukai flops of type \(A\). In addition, in the case of flop of type \(E_{6,I}\) the authors construct a natural functor which induces an isomorphism between the Chow groups of the two sides of the flop.