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Morelli-W\l odarczyk cobordism and examples of rooftop flips

Algebraic Geometry 2023-03-29 v1

Abstract

We introduce the notion of rooftop flip, namely a small modification among normal projective varieties which is modeled by a smooth projective variety of Picard number 2 admitting two projective bundle structures. Examples include the Atiyah flop and the Mukai flop, modeled respectively by P1×P1\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1 and by P(TP2)\mathbb{P}\left(T_{\mathbb{P}^2}\right). Using the Morelli-Wlodarczyk cobordism, we prove that any smooth projective variety of Picard number 1, endowed with a C\mathbb{C}^*-action with only two fixed point components, induces a rooftop flip.

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@article{arxiv.2303.15905,
  title  = {Morelli-W\l odarczyk cobordism and examples of rooftop flips},
  author = {Lorenzo Barban and Alberto Franceschini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15905},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures. Comments are very welcome!