Homotopy types of toric orbifolds from Weyl polytopes
Speaker:
Tao Gong, Western University
Date and Time:
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 - 1:40pm to 2:10pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Given a reduced crystallographic root system with a fixed simple system, it is associated to a Weyl group W, parabolic subgroups WK's and a polytope P which is the convex hull of the W-orbit of a dominant weight. The quotient P/WK can be identified with a polytope. Polytopes P and P/WK are associated to toric varieties XP and XP/WK respectively. It turns out the underlying topological spaces XP/WK and XP/WK are homotopy equivalent, when considering the polytopes in the real span of the root lattice.