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Reductive quotients of klt singularities

Algebraic Geometry 2024-08-21 v3 Complex Variables Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the quotient of a klt type singularity by a reductive group is of klt type. In particular, given a klt variety XX endowed with the action of a reductive group GG and admitting a quasi-projective good quotient XX/ ⁣/GX\rightarrow X/\!/G, we can find a boundary BB on X/ ⁣/GX/\!/G so that the pair (X/ ⁣/G,B)(X/\!/G,B) is klt. This applies for example to GIT-quotients of klt varieties. Our main result has consequences for complex spaces obtained as quotients of Hamiltonian K\"ahler GG-manifolds, for collapsings of homogeneous vector bundles as introduced by Kempf, and for good moduli spaces of smooth Artin stacks. In particular, it implies that the good moduli space parametrizing nn-dimensional K-polystable Fano manifolds of volume vv has klt type singularities. As a corresponding result regarding global geometry, we show that quotients of Mori Dream Spaces with klt Cox rings are Mori Dream Spaces with klt Cox ring. This in turn applies to show that projective GIT-quotients of varieties of Fano type are of Fano type; in particular, projective moduli spaces of semistable quiver representations are of Fano type.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.02812,
  title  = {Reductive quotients of klt singularities},
  author = {Lukas Braun and Daniel Greb and Kevin Langlois and Joaquín Moraga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02812},
  year   = {2024}
}

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v3: Final version. To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae

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