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16 - Cluster Varieties and Toric Specializations of Fano Varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2024

Christopher Hacon
Affiliation:
University of Utah
Chenyang Xu
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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I state a conjecture describing the set of toric specializations of a Fano variety with klt singularities. The conjecture asserts that for all generic Fano varieties X with klt singularities, there exists a polarized cluster variety U and a surjection from the set of torus charts on U to the set of toric specializations of X.

I outline the first steps of a theory of the cluster varieties that I use. In dimension 2, I sketch a proof of the conjecture after Kasprzyk–Nill–Prince, Lutz, and Hacking by way of work of Lai–Zhou. This reveals a surprising structure to the classification of log del Pezzo surfaces that was first conjectured in [1]. In higher dimensions, I survey the evidence from the Fanosearch program, cluster structures for Grassmannians and flag varieties, and moduli spaces of conformal blocks.

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Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry
A Volume in Honor of V. V. Shokurov
, pp. 264 - 285
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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