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

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2019.10.047MaRDI QIDQ2285284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alex Massarenti

Publication date 8 January 2020

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09011

zbMATH Keywords

complete skew-formsCox ringsFano varietiesMori dream spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Fano varieties (14J45) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: Moduli spaces of complete skew-forms are compactifications of spaces of skew-symmetric linear maps of maximal rank on a fixed vector space, where the added boundary divisor is simple normal crossing. In this paper we compute their effective, nef and movable cones, the generators of their Cox rings, and for those spaces having Picard rank two we give an explicit presentation of the Cox ring. Furthermore, we give a complete description of both the Mori chamber and stable base locus decompositions of the effective cone of some spaces of complete skew-forms having Picard rank at most four.

Review text

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}].

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