arXiv · 2106.09143
Staircase symmetries in Hirzebruch surfaces
Abstract
This paper continues the investigation of staircases in the family of Hirzebruch surfaces formed by blowing up the projective plane with weight b, that was started in Bertozzi, Holm et al. in arXiv:2010.08567. We explain the symmetries underlying the structure of the set of b that admit staircases, and show how the properties of these symmetries arise from a governing Diophantine equation. We also greatly simplify the techniques needed to show that a family of steps does form a staircase by using arithmetic properties of the accumulation function. There should be analogous results about both staircases and mutations for the other rational toric domains considered, for example, by Cristofaro-Gardiner et al. in arXiv:2004.07829 and by Casals--Vianna in arXiv:2004.13232.
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