Projective normality of complete symmetric varieties
Projective normality of complete symmetric varieties
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完全对称簇的投影正态性
DOI:
10.1215/s0012-7094-04-12213-4
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
A. Maffei
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作者:
R. Chirivì;A. Maffei
We prove that in characteristic zero the multiplication of sections of line bundles generated by global sections on a complete symmetric variety X = G/H is a surjective map. As a consequence, the cone defined by a complete linear system over X or over a closed G-stable subvariety of X is normal. This gives an affirmative answer to a question raised by Faltings in [11]. A crucial point of the proof is a combinatorial property of root systems. Introduction Let G be an adjoint semisimple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let G be its algebraic simply connected cover. Given an involutorial automorphism σ : G → G, denote by H the subgroup of fixed points of σ . A wonderful compactification X of the symmetric variety G/H has been constructed by De Concini and Procesi [9]. The main result of our paper can be stated as the following. THEOREM A If L and L ′ are line bundles generated by global sections on X , then the multiplication 0(X,L )⊗ 0(X,L )→ 0(X,L ⊗L ) is surjective. The projective normality of X follows by a standard argument. Hence we give an affirmative answer to a problem raised by Faltings in [11]. Our result has already been proved in [15] by Kannan in the special case of the compactification of a group, in which G = H×H and the involution exchanges the two copies of H , by a completely different method that does not apply to this situation. We stress that it is necessary to assume that the line bundles L and L ′ are generated by global sections, as the example after the proof of Theorem A in Section 3 shows. DUKE MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL Vol. 122, No. 1, c © 2004 Received 4 October 2002. Revision received 17 March 2003. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 14M17; Secondary 14L30.