Moduli spaces of Delzant polytopes and symplectic toric manifolds

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Authors: Álvaro Pelayo, Francisco C. Santos 

Publication date: 4 March 2023

Abstract: We prove a number of geometric and topological properties of the moduli space $mathcalD(n)$ of $n$-dimensional Delzant polytopes for any $ngeq2$. Using the Delzant correspondence this allows us to answer several questions, posed in the past decade by a number of authors, concerning the moduli space $mathcalM(n)$ of symplectic toric manifolds of dimension $2n$. Two highlights of the paper are the construction of examples showing that, in contrast with the work of Oda in dimension $4$, no classification of minimal models of symplectic toric manifolds should be expected in higher dimension, and a proof that the space of $n$-dimensional Delzant polytopes is path-connected, which was previously shown for $n=2$ by the first author, Pires, Ratiu and Sabatini in 2014, who made use of the classification of minimal models in this case. Our proof of path connectedness for $ngeq2$ is algorithmic and based on the fact that every rational fan can be refined to a unimodular fan, a standard result used for resolution of singularities in toric varieties.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

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