Uniqueness of equivariant compactifications of C^n by a Fano manifold of Picard number 1

DOI10.4310/MRL.2014.V21.N1.A9MaRDI QIDQ743729zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Baohua Fu, Jun-Muk Hwang

Publication date 30 September 2014

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5486

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant compactificationsFano manifoldsquadric hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05)

Abstract: Let X be an $n$-dimensional Fano manifold of Picard number 1. We study how many different ways X can compactify the complex vector group C^n equivariantly. Hassett and Tschinkel showed that when X = P^n with n geq 2, there are many distinct ways that X can be realized as equivariant compactifications of C^n. Our result says that projective space is an exception: among Fano manifolds of Picard number 1 with smooth VMRT, projective space is the only one compactifying C^n equivariantly in more than one ways. This answers questions raised by Hassett-Tschinkel and Arzhantsev-Sharoyko.

Review text

An equivariant compactification of the complex vector space \(G={\mathbb C}^n\) is a projective variety \(X\) of dimension \(n\), endowed with an action of \(G\) such that there exists a Zariski open orbit (which is isomorphic to \(G\)). Two such structures on \(X\) are isomorphic if there exists a linear map on \(G\) and an automorphism of \(X\) which transform one action into the other. It has been shown by \textit{B. Hassett} and \textit{Y. Tschinkel} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 1999, No. 22, 1211--1230 (1999; Zbl 0966.14033)] that if \(n\geq 2\), then \({\mathbb P}^n\) has several non-isomorphic equivariant compactification structures. In fact, if \(n\geq 6\), there are infinitely many such structures. In this article, it is shown that this phenomenon is very special to the projective space. In fact, let \(X\subset {\mathbb P}^N\) be a submanifold with Picard number 1 such that for a general point \(x\in X\), there exists a line of the ambient projective space passing through \(x\) which is contained in \(X\). Then if \(X\) is not isomorphic to the projective space, then all equivariant compactification structures on \(X\) are isomorphic.

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