Weyl and Zariski chambers on projective surfaces

Let X be a nonsingular complex projective surface. The Weyl and Zariski chambers give two interesting decompositions of the big cone of X. Following the ideas of [T. Bauer and M. Funke, Weyl and Zariski chambers on K3 surfaces, Forum Math. 24 2012, 3, 609–625] and [S. A. Rams and T. Szemberg, When are Zariski chambers numerically determined?, Forum Math. 28 2016, 6, 1159–1166], we study these two decompositions and determine when a Weyl chamber is contained in the interior of a Zariski chamber and vice versa. We also determine when a Weyl chamber can intersect non-trivially with a Zariski chamber.

Topological mixing of Weyl chamber flows

In this paper we study topological properties of the right action by translation of the Weyl chamber flow on the space of Weyl chambers. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for topological mixing.

Compactifications of reductive groups as moduli stacks of bundles

Let $G$ be a split reductive group. We introduce the moduli problem of bundle chains parametrizing framed principal $G$-bundles on chains of lines. Any fan supported in a Weyl chamber determines a stability condition on bundle chains. Its moduli stack provides an equivariant toroidal compactification of $G$. All toric orbifolds may be thus obtained. Moreover, we get a canonical compactification of any semisimple $G$, which agrees with the wonderful compactification in the adjoint case, but which in other cases is an orbifold. Finally, we describe the connections with Losev–Manin’s spaces of weighted pointed curves and with Kausz’s compactification of $GL_{n}$.

NORMALITY AND QUADRATICITY FOR SPECIAL AMPLE LINE BUNDLES ON TORIC VARIETIES ARISING FROM ROOT SYSTEMS

We prove that special ample line bundles on toric varieties arising from root systems are projectively normal. Here the maximal cones of the fans correspond to the Weyl chambers, and special means that the bundle is torus-equivariant such that the character of the line bundle that corresponds to a maximal Weyl chamber is dominant with respect to that chamber. Moreover, we prove that the associated semi-group rings are quadratic.