Organizers:
Federico Bongiorno, Theodoros Papazachariou
Speaker:
Ruadhai Dervan (University of Warwick)
Time:
Wed., 15:30-16:30, Jan. 14, 2026
Venue:
B725, Shuangqing Complex Building A
Online:
Zoom Meeting ID: 262 865 5007 Passcode: YMSC
Venue:
Metric wall-crossing
Abstract:
When a reductive group acts on a projective variety, a choice of (linearised) ample line bundle gives a choice of quotient. Wall-crossing (or VGIT) explains how the quotient space changes with the choice of line bundle: the quotients vary birationally, by flips, and only finitely finite birational models can occur.
I will describe a (Kähler) metric version of these results. Each quotient admits a natural choice of Kähler metric, through a symplectic quotient construction. I will prove metric convergence (towards walls), and the existence of metric flips (across walls), when one suitably varies the choice of line bundle determining the quotient. I will use these results to motivate analogous conjectures governing the metric geometry of moduli spaces in wall-crossing problems in algebraic geometry.