Differential operators on toric varieties and Fourier transform.

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Abstract: We show that Fourier transforms on the Weyl algebras have a geometric counterpart in the framework of toric varieties, namely they induce isomorphisms between twisted rings of differential operators on regular toric varieties, whose fans are related to each other by reflections of one-dimensional cones. The simplest class of examples is provided by the toric varieties related by such reflections to projective spaces. It includes the blow-up at a point in affine space and resolution of singularities of varieties appearing in the study of the minimal orbit of sl(n+1).


Consider a blow-up \(\pi\colon\widetilde\mathbb{A}^n\to\mathbb{A}^n\) at the origin of affine complex space and put \(E=\pi^{-1}(0)\). Denote by \(\mathcal D_{\mathcal O(mE)}(\widetilde\mathbb{A}^n)\) the ring of global regular differential operators twisted by \(\mathcal O(mE)\). The Fourier transformation \(\varphi\) on the Weyl algebra, \(\varphi(q_i)=p_i\), \(\varphi(p_i)=-q_i\) restricts to a ring isomorphism \(\mathcal D_{\mathcal O(m-n)}(\mathbb{P}^n)\simeq\mathcal D_{\mathcal O(mE)}(\widetilde\mathbb{A}^n)\). In particular there is a surjective algebra homomorphism \(U(\mathfrak{sl}(n+1))\to\mathcal D_{\mathcal O(mE)}(\widetilde\mathbb{A}^n)\). Consider the Cartan decomposition of \(\mathfrak{sl}(n+1)\) and denote by \(M(\lambda)\) the Verma module with the highest weight \(\lambda\), \(\lambda\in\mathfrak h^*\). Let \(L(\lambda)\) be the irreducible quotient of \(M(\lambda)\). The space of global sections \(\Gamma(\widetilde\mathbb{A}^n,\mathcal O(mE))\) as \(U(\mathfrak{sl}(n+1))\)-module is isomorphic to \(L(-(m+1)\overline{w_n})\) if \(m\geqslant 0\) and to \(L((m-1)\overline{w_n}-m\overline{w_{n-1}})\) otherwise. Here \(w_i\) is the fundamental weight \(x\mapsto x_1+\cdots+x_i\), where \(x=\text{diag}(x_1,\dots,x_{n+1})\in\mathfrak h\).











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