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Blowups, Gale duality, and moduli spaces

Algebraic Geometry 2026-05-27 v1

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to describe the birational geometry of the blowup of Pn\mathbb{P}^n at n+4n+4 points in very general position. To achieve this, we follow an idea of Mukai and explore a special instance of Gale duality, namely, a correspondence between configurations of n+4n+4 points in the projective spaces Pn\mathbb{P}^n and P2\mathbb{P}^2. We first prove that the blowup XX of Pn\mathbb{P}^n at n+4n+4 general points is isomorphic to a certain Gieseker moduli space of rank 22 vector bundles on the surface SS obtained by blowing up P2\mathbb{P}^2 at the n+4n+4 Gale dual points. We then study the variation of these moduli spaces as we vary the polarization LL on SS, and translate this variation into a partial Mori chamber decomposition of Eff(X)\overline{Eff}(X), describing to some extent the birational geometry of XX.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27152,
  title  = {Blowups, Gale duality, and moduli spaces},
  author = {Carolina Araujo and Ana-Maria Castravet and Inder Kaur and Diletta Martinelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27152},
  year   = {2026}
}

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32 pages

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