Balanced complexes and effective divisors on ${\overline{M}}_{0,n}$

Abstract

Doran, Jensen and Giansiracusa showed a bijection between homogeneous elements in the Cox ring of ${\overline{M}}_{0,n}$ not divisible by any exceptional divisor section, and weighted pure-dimensional simplicial complexes satisfying a zero-tension condition. Motivated by the study of the monoid of effective divisors, the pseudoeffective cone and the Cox ring of ${\overline{M}}_{0,n}$, we point out a simplification of the zero-tension condition and study the space of balanced complexes. We give examples of irreducible elements in the monoid of effective divisors of ${\overline{M}}_{0,n}$ for large $n$. In the case of ${\overline{M}}_{0,7}$, we classify all such irreducible elements arising from nonsingular complexes and give an example of how irreducibility can be shown in the singular case.

10 pages, 8 figures

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• On the effective cone of ${\overline{\mathcal{M}}}_{g,n}$
• Extremal effective divisors on the moduli space of n-pointed genus one curves