Symmetries of Fano varieties
Speaker:
Lena Ji, University of Michigan
Date and Time:
Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:30am to 10:30am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Prokhorov and Shramov proved that the BAB conjecture (which Birkar later proved) implies the uniform Jordan property for automorphism groups of complex Fano varieties of fixed dimension. This property in particular gives an upper bound on the size of semi-simple groups (i.e. those with no non-trivial normal abelian subgroups) acting faithfully on n-dimensional complex Fano varieties, and this bound only depends on n. In this talk, we investigate the consequences of an action by a particular semi-simple group: the symmetric group. This work is joint with Louis Esser and Joaquín Moraga.