The universal covers of hypertoric varieties and Bogomolov's decomposition
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The universal covers of hypertoric varieties and Bogomolov's decomposition
zbMATH Open document ID: 1492.14023
author: Takahiro Nagaoka
published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift
publication date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12066
review text: Hypertoric varieties (or toric hyperkähler varieties) are hyperkähler analogues of toric varietes. They come with a symplectic form \(\omega\) on their regular locus. Such affine varieties \((Y,\omega)\) are called ``conical symplectic varieties''. Their fundamental geometric properties, deformation theory, birational geometry have been extensively studied. However, as the author suggests, notions of ``universal coverings'' have not been well-studied. In [\textit{Y. Namikawa}, Kyoto J. Math. 53, No. 2, 483--514 (2013; Zbl 1277.32029)] the author asks whether for a concial symplectic variety \((Y,\omega)\) the fundamental group \(\pi_1\left(Y_{\operatorname{reg}}\right)\) is finite. Some partial results in this direction are later given by Namikawa. Now, assuming this fundamental group is finite, Nagaoka defines in the present article the (singular) universal covering of a conical symplectic variety \((Y,\omega)\). In this way one obtains a new example of a conical symplectic variety. One of the main motivations of the present article is the problem of describing these universal coverings and the fundamental groups \(\pi_1\left(Y_{\operatorname{reg}}\right)\). Another reason to study universal coverings comes from an of analogue of the Bogomolov's decomposition, which asks if one can decompose the universal covering \(\left(\overline{Y}, \overline{\omega}\right)\) of \((Y, \omega)\) into a product \(\prod_i\left(Y_i, \omega_i\right)\) of irreducible conical symplectic varieties. Here, \(\omega_i\) is the unique conical symplectic structure on \(Y_i\) up to scalar. Such a decomposition result is conjectured by Namikawa for general conical symplectic varieties. The present article gives a complete answer to the first problem for affine hypertoric varieties. It describes the universal covering of an affine hypertoric variety in terms of the combinatorics of the associated hyperplane arrangement. This is also an affine hypertoric variety. Also a description of \(\pi_1\le…
reviewed by: Ana María Botero
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52B40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52C35
zbMATH DE Number: 7489520
zbMATH Keywords: hypertoric varieties
zbMATH Keywords: conical symplectic varieties
zbMATH Keywords: universal cover
zbMATH Keywords: fundamental group of regular locus
zbMATH Keywords: Bogomolov's decomposition
zbMATH Keywords: uniqueness of symplectic structure
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3207906077
arXiv ID: 1910.12066
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DOI: 10.1007/S00209-021-02860-1
description: scientific article