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Consider a simple algebraic group G of adjoint type, and its wonderful compactification X. We show that X admits a unique family of minimal rational curves, and we explicitly describe the subfamily consisting of curves through a general point. As an application, we show that X has the target rigidity property when G is not of type A_1 or C.
For a complex connected semisimple linear algebraic group G of adjoint type and of rank n, De Concini and Procesi constructed its wonderful compactification bar{G}, which is a smooth Fano G times G-variety of Picard number n enjoying many interesting properties. In this paper, it is shown that the wonderful compactification bar{G} is rigid under Fano deformations. Namely, for any family of smooth Fano varieties over a connected base, if one fiber is isomorphic to bar{G}, then so are all other fibers.
In this paper, we obtain parametrizations of the moduli space of principal bundles over a compact Riemann surface using spaces of Hecke modifications in several cases. We begin with a discussion of Hecke modifications for principal bundles and give constructions of universal Hecke modifications of a fixed bundle of fixed type. This is followed by an overview of the construction of the wonderful, or De Concini--Procesi, compactification of a semi-simple algebraic group of adjoint type. The compactification plays an important role in the deformation theory used in constructing the parametrizations. A general outline to construct parametrizations is given and verifications for specific structure groups are carried out.
Let $C$ be an algebraic curve of genus $g$ and $L$ a line bundle over $C$. Let $mathcal{MS}_C(n,L)$ and $mathcal{MO}_C(n,L)$ be the moduli spaces of $L$-valued symplectic and orthogonal bundles respectively, over $C$ of rank $n$. We construct rational curves on these moduli spaces which generalize Hecke curves on the moduli space of vector bundles. As a main result, we show that these Hecke type curves have the minimal degree among the rational curves passing through a general point of the moduli spaces. As its byproducts, we show the non-abelian Torelli theorem and compute the automorphism group of moduli spaces.
Let $C$ be a hyperelliptic curve of genus $g$ over the fraction field $K$ of a discrete valuation ring $R$. Assume that the residue field $k$ of $R$ is perfect and that $mathop{textrm{char}} k eq 2$. Assume that the Weierstrass points of $C$ are $K$-rational. Let $S = mathop{textrm{Spec}} R$. Let $mathcal{X}$ be the minimal proper regular model of $C$ over $S$. Let $mathop{textrm{Art}} (mathcal{X}/S)$ denote the Artin conductor of the $S$-scheme $mathcal{X}$ and let $ u (Delta)$ denote the minimal discriminant of $C$. We prove that $-mathop{textrm{Art}} (mathcal{X}/S) leq u (Delta)$. As a corollary, we obtain that the number of components of the special fiber of $mathcal{X}$ is bounded above by $ u(Delta)+1$.
We give a summary of joint work with Michael Thaddeus that realizes toroidal compactifcations of split reductive groups as moduli spaces of framed bundles on chains of rational curves. We include an extension of this work that covers Artin stacks with good moduli spaces. We discuss, for complex groups, the symplectic counterpart of these compactifications, and conclude with some open problems about the moduli problem concerned.