The Cox ring of a spherical embedding

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2013.08.037MaRDI QIDQ405887zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giuliano Gagliardi

Publication date 8 September 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2100

zbMATH Keywords

Cox ringspherical varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27)

Abstract: Let G be a connected reductive group and G/H a spherical homogeneous space. We show that the ideal of relations between a natural set of generators of the Cox ring of a G-embedding of G/H can be obtained by homogenizing certain equations which depend only on the homogeneous space. Using this result, we describe some examples of spherical homogeneous spaces such that the Cox ring of any of their G-embeddings is defined by one equation.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected reductive algebraic group over the field \(\mathbb C\) of the complex numbers, a normal algebraic \(G\)-variety is called spherical if it possesses an open orbit for a Borel subgroup of \(G\). The aim of the paper is to give a description by generators and relations of the Cox ring of a spherical variety \(Y\), which is supposed to have no non-constant regular function.NEWLINENEWLINEThe spherical variety \(Y\) may be regarded as an equivariant embedding of a spherical homogeneous variety \(G/H\). The Cox ring of \(Y\) is then presented as a quotient of a polynomial ring \(A(Y):= A(G/H)[W_1, \ldots, W_n]\), where \(A(G/H)\) is a polynomial ring depending only on the open orbit \(G/H\) and where the variables \(W_1, \ldots, W_n\) correspond to the \(G\)-stable prime divisors of \(Y\). In order to define the set of relations, the general case is reduced to the case where the spherical homogeneous variety \(G/H\) is quasi-affine. In this situation, the author constructs a locally closed \(G\)-equivariant embedding of \(G/H\) into an affine variety \(Z\), which is the product of an affine space and a torus and which only depends on \(G/H\). Then he defines a homogeneization map \(\mathbb C[Z] \longrightarrow A(Y)\), and the set of relations defining the Cox ring of \(Y\) in \(A(Y)\) is generated by the image of the ideal which defines \(G/H\) inside \(Z\).NEWLINENEWLINEWhen \(Y\) is a toric variety for a torus \(T\), the theorem reduces to the result of Cox that the Cox ring of \(Y\) is a polynomial ring with one variable for any \(T\)-stable prime divisor. Another description of the Cox ring of a spherical vareity is due to \textit{M. Brion} [J. Algebra 313, No. 1, 61--99 (2007; Zbl 1123.14024)] by making use of wonderful varieties, the two descriptions are compared in the last section of the paper.

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