Mori dream spaces and GIT.

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DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132722zbMATH Open1077.14554arXivmath/0004017OpenAlexW2052532747MaRDI QIDQ5954565FDOQ5954565


Authors: Yi Hu, Sean Keel Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 February 2002

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to study varieties with the best possible Mori theoretic properties (measured by the existence of a certain decomposition of the cone of effective divisors). We call such a variety a Mori Dream Space. There turn out to be many examples, including quasi-smooth projective toric (or more generally, spherical) varieties, many GIT quotients, and log Fano 3-folds. We characterize Mori dream spaces as GIT quotients of affine varieties by a torus in a manner generalizing Cox's construction of toric varieties as quotients of affine space. Via the quotient description, the chamber decomposition of the cone of divisors in Mori theory is naturally identified with the decomposition of the G-ample cone from geometric invariant theory. In particular every rational contraction of a Mori dream space comes from GIT, and all possible factorizations of a rational contraction can be read off from the chamber decomposition.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0004017




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