Factorization of point configurations, cyclic covers, and conformal blocks

DOI10.4171/JEMS/562zbMATH Open1329.14060arXiv1208.4019MaRDI QIDQ891760FDOQ891760

Authors: Michele Bolognesi, Noah Giansiracusa 

Publication date: 17 November 2015

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a relation between the invariants of $n$ ordered points in $P^d$ and of points contained in a union of linear subspaces $P^{d1}cup{P}^{d2}subset{P}^d$. This yields an attaching map for GIT quotients parameterizing point configurations in these spaces, and we show that it respects the Segre product of the natural GIT polarizations. Associated to a configuration supported on a rational normal curve is a cyclic cover, and we show that if the branch points are weighted by the GIT linearization and the rational normal curve degenerates, then the admissible covers limit is a cyclic cover with weights as in this attaching map. We find that both GIT polarizations and the Hodge class for families of cyclic covers yield line bundles on $$ with functorial restriction to the boundary. We introduce a notion of divisorial factorization, abstracting an axiom from rational conformal field theory, to encode this property and show that it determines the isomorphism class of these line bundles. As an application, we obtain a unified, geometric proof of two recent results on conformal block bundles, one by Fedorchuk and one by Gibney and the second author.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4019

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zbMATH Keywords

factorizationGITconformal blocksramified cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20)

Cites Work

• Higher-level \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) conformal blocks divisors on \(\overline{M}_{0,n}\)

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