All crepant resolutions of hyperpolygon spaces via their Cox rings

TL;DR

This paper explicitly constructs and counts all crepant resolutions of hyperpolygon spaces, revealing their Cox rings and linking the number of resolutions to Ho ext{ }sten-Morris numbers, with applications to moduli spaces of points on the projective line.

Contribution

It provides a complete enumeration and explicit Cox ring presentations of all crepant resolutions of hyperpolygon spaces, including non-projective cases, and relates these to classical GIT moduli spaces.

Findings

Number of crepant resolutions equals Ho ext{ }sten-Morris numbers.

Explicit Cox ring presentations for all resolutions.

Identification of moduli spaces of points on the projective line as Lagrangian subvarieties.

Abstract

We construct and enumerate all crepant resolutions of hyperpolygon spaces, a family of conical symplectic singularities arising as Nakajima quiver varieties associated to a star-shaped quiver. We provide an explicit presentation of the Cox ring of any such crepant resolution. Using techniques developed by Arzhantsev-Derenthal-Hausen-Laface we construct all crepant resolutions of the hyperpolygon spaces, including those which are not projective over the singularity. We find that the number of crepant resolutions equals the Ho\c{s}ten-Morris numbers. In proving these results, we obtain a description of all complete geometric quotients associated to the classical GIT problem constructing moduli spaces of ordered points on the projective line. These moduli spaces appear as the Lagrangian subvarieties of crepant resolutions of hyperpolygon spaces fixed under the conical action.