Chow quotients of Grassmannian I

Details Chow quotients of Grassmannian I Chow quotients of Grassmannian I

1992-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9210002v1

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Algebraic Geometry

88 pages,plain TeX

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We introduce a certain compactification of the space of projective configurations i.e. orbits of the group $PGL(k)$ on the space of $n$ - tuples of points in $P^{k-1}$ in general position. This compactification differs considerably from Mumford's geometric invariant theory quotient. It is obtained by considering limit position (in the Chow variety) of the closures of generic orbits. The same result will be obtained if we study orbits of the maximal torus on the Grassmannian $G(k,n)$. We study in detail the closures of the torus orbits and their "visible contours" which are Veronese varieties in the Grassmannian. For points on $P^1$ our construction gives the Grothemdieck - Knudsen moduli space of stable $n$ -punctured curves of genus 0. The "Chow quotient" interpretation of this space permits us to represent it as a blow up of a projective space.

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