Inertia groups of a toric Deligne-Mumford stack, fake weighted projective stacks, and labeled sheared simplices (Q309472)

This review is extracted from the introduction of the article. ``In their foundational paper [\textit{L. A. Borisov} et al., J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, No. 1, 193--215 (2005; Zbl 1178.14057)], Borisov, Chen, and Smith introduce the notion of a \textit{stacky fan}, the combinatorial data from which one constructs toric Deligne-Mumford (DM) stacks, which are the stack-theoretic analogues of classical toric varieties. When the corresponding fan is polytopal, classical toric varieties have been studied from the perspectives of both algebraic and symplectic geometry. Similarly, when the underlying fan of a stacky fan is polytopal, a toric DM stack admits a description in the language of symplectic geometry via the combinatorial data of a \textit{stacky polytope} introduced by Sakai [\textit{H. Sakai}, Result. Math. 63, No. 3--4, 903--922 (2013; Zbl 1286.57026)]. (In the symplectic-geometric context -- and particularly in this manuscript -- stacks are considered over the category of smooth manifolds.) The mathematical contributions of this manuscript are as follows. We first describe in Theorem 2.2, Proposition 2.4, and Proposition 2.15 an explicit computation of the isotropy groups of toric DM stacks, realized as quotient stacks \([Z/G]\) for appropriate space \(Z\) and abelian Lie group \(G\), in terms of the combinatorial data (i.e. stacky fan) determining the toric DM stack. Secondly, as an application of our description of isotropy groups of toric DM stacks, we give a computation of the connected component of the identity element \(G_0 \subset G\) and the component group \(G/G_0\) in terms of the underlying stacky fan (Proposition 2.11, Lemma 2.8, Proposition 2.17). In this manuscript, our computation of isotropy groups leads to a characterization of those toric DM stacks that are (stacks equivalent to) global quotients of a finite group action and to a description of its universal cover (cf. Section 2.2). Our third set of results concern weighted projective stacks (resp. `\textit{fake weighted projective stacks}'), which are natural stack-theoretic analogues of the classical weighted projective spaces (resp. fake weighted projective spaces). These form a rich class of examples that have been studied extensively both as stacks and as orbifolds. As another application of our computation of isotropy groups, in Proposition 3.2 (resp. Proposition 3.4) we obtain an exact characterization of those stacky polytopes which yield (stacks equivalent to) weighted projective stacks (resp. fake weighted projective stacks). Finally, in Section 4 we introduce a class of labelled polytopes, which we call \textit{labelled sheared simplices}. These are labelled simplices with all facets but one lying on coordinate hyperplanes. In this special case we illustrate the aforementioned results concretely in terms of the facet labels.''