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GKZ discriminant and Multiplicities

Algebraic Geometry 2025-02-14 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Let T=(\C)kT=(\C^*)^k act on V=\CNV=\C^N faithfully and preserving the volume form, i.e. (\C)k\intoSL(V)(\C^*)^k \into \text{SL}(V). On the B-side, we have toric stacks ZWZ_W (see Eq. \ref{eq:ZW})labelled by walls WW in the GKZ fan, and Z/FZ_{/F} labelled by faces of a polytope corresponding to minimal semi-orthogonal decomposition (SOD) components. The B-side multiplicity nW,FBn^B_{W,F}, well-defined by a result of Kite-Segal \cite{kite-segal}, is the number of times \Coh(Z/F)\Coh(Z_{/F}) appears in a complete SOD of \Coh(ZW)\Coh(Z_W). On the A-side, we have the GKZ discriminant loci components F\In(\C)k\nabla_F \In (\C^*)^k, and its tropicalization Ftrop\InRk\nabla^{trop}_{F} \In \R^k. The A-side multiplicity nW,FAn^A_{W, F} is defined as the multiplicity of the tropical complex Ftrop\nabla^{trop}_{F} on wall WW. We prove that nW,FA=nW,FBn^A_{W,F} = n^B_{W,F}, confirming a conjecture in Kite-Segal \cite{kite-segal} inspired by \cite{aspinwall2017mirror}. Our proof is based on the result of Horja-Katzarkov \cite{horja2022discriminants} and a lemma about B-side SOD multiplicity, which allows us to reduce to lower dimension just as in A-side \cite{GKZ-book}[Ch 11].

Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.14778,
  title  = {GKZ discriminant and Multiplicities},
  author = {Jesse Huang and Peng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.14778},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, final version to appear in Comm. Math. Phys

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