Non-isomorphic smooth compactifications of the moduli space of cubic surfaces
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Publication:6404325
DOI10.1017/NMJ.2023.27arXiv2207.03533MaRDI QIDQ6404325FDOQ6404325
Authors: Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, Samuel Grushevsky, Klaus Hulek, Radu Laza 
Publication date: 7 July 2022
Abstract: The moduli space of complex cubic surfaces has three different, but isomorphic, compact realizations: as a GIT quotient, as a Baily--Borel compactification of a ball quotient, and as a compactified -moduli space. From all three perspectives, there is a unique boundary point corresponding to non-stable surfaces. From the GIT point of view, to deal with this point, it is natural to consider the Kirwan blowup, while from the ball quotient point of view it is natural to consider the toroidal compactification. Both these spaces have the same cohomology and and it is therefore natural to ask whether they are isomorphic. Here we show that this is in fact not the case. Indeed, we show the more refined statement that both spaces are equivalent in the Grothendieck ring, but not -equivalent. Along the way, we establish a number of results and techniques for dealing with singularities and canonical classes of Kirwan blowups and toroidal compactifications of ball quotients.
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