A new linear quotient of C 4 admitting a symplectic resolution

AbstractOver the past 2 decades, there has been much progress on the classification of symplectic linear quotient singularities V/G admitting a symplectic (equivalently, crepant) resolution of singularities. The classification is almost complete but there is an infinite series of groups in dimension 4—the symplectically primitive but complex imprimitive groups—and 10 exceptional groups up to dimension 10, for which it is still open. In this paper, we treat the remaining infinite series and prove that for all but possibly 39 cases there is no symplectic resolution. We thereby reduce the classification problem to finitely many open cases. We furthermore prove non-existence of a symplectic resolution for one exceptional group, leaving $$39+9=48$$ 39 + 9 = 48 open cases in total. We do not expect any of the remaining cases to admit a symplectic resolution.

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Counting resolutions of symplectic quotient singularities

Compositio Mathematica ◽

10.1112/s0010437x15007630 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 152 (1) ◽

pp. 99-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gwyn Bellamy

Keyword(s):

Simple Formula ◽

Finite Subgroup ◽

Quotient Singularity ◽

Symplectic Resolution ◽

Quotient Singularities ◽

Symplectic Resolutions

Let ${\rm\Gamma}$ be a finite subgroup of $\text{Sp}(V)$. In this article we count the number of symplectic resolutions admitted by the quotient singularity $V/{\rm\Gamma}$. Our approach is to compare the universal Poisson deformation of the symplectic quotient singularity with the deformation given by the Calogero–Moser space. In this way, we give a simple formula for the number of $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial terminalizations admitted by the symplectic quotient singularity in terms of the dimension of a certain Orlik–Solomon algebra naturally associated to the Calogero–Moser deformation. This dimension is explicitly calculated for all groups ${\rm\Gamma}$ for which it is known that $V/{\rm\Gamma}$ admits a symplectic resolution. As a consequence of our results, we confirm a conjecture of Ginzburg and Kaledin.

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