Toric symmetry of CP^3

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2012.V16.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ361165zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dagan Karp, Dhruv Ranganathan, Paul Riggins, Ursula Whitcher

Publication date 28 August 2013

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5157

zbMATH Keywords

Cremona transformationDonaldson--Thomasgraph associahedronGromov-Wittenpermutohedrontoric blowup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

Abstract: We exhaustively analyze the toric symmetries of CP^3 and its toric blowups. Our motivation is to study toric symmetry as a computational technique in Gromov-Witten theory and Donaldson-Thomas theory. We identify all nontrivial toric symmetries. The induced nontrivial isomorphisms lift and provide new symmetries at the level of Gromov-Witten Theory and Donaldson-Thomas Theory. The polytopes of the toric varieties in question include the permutohedron, the cyclohedron, the associahedron, and in fact all graph associahedra, among others.

Review text

Toric symmetries of a toric variety are the automorphisms of the lattice \(\mathbb{Z}^n\) that permute the cones of its fan. The authors are interested in symmetries that act non--trivially on Chow homology, and Gromov--Witten and Donaldson--Thomas invariants. Non--trivial toric symmetries provide a new way of computing some of the invariants, as an alternative to fixed point localization, topological vertex and the remodeling conjecture. It manifests at the level of invariants themselves, rather than generating functions, and is difficult to detect by other techniques.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper a case study of toric symmetries is undertaken for the toric blowups of \(\mathbb{P}^3\). The latter are obtained by iterated blowup of \(\mathbb{P}^3\) along toric invariant subvarieties only, so blowups with the centers in the exceptional locus, for example, are excluded. The prototypical example is the Cremona symmetry of \(\mathbb{P}^3\) induced by the resolution of the birational Cremona transformation.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper identifies four classes of toric blowups that have non--trivial toric symmetries (up to relabeling of cones); three classes have a unique symmetry, and one has exactly three distinct symmetries. Explicit descriptions of the four classes and their symmetries are given, in particular their toric polytopes are identified. They include permutohedron, cyclohedron and other graph associahedra. It is mentioned that in the case of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) the only toric blowup with non--trivial symmetry is the blowup of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) at the three torus fixed points, and the symmetry is the two dimensional Cremona symmetry.

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