Compactifications of adjoint orbits and their Hodge diamonds

Abstract

A recent theorem of [E. Gasparim, L. Grama and L. A. B. San Martin, Lefschetz fibrations on adjoint orbits, Forum Math. 28(5) (2016) 967–980.] showed that adjoint orbits of semisimple Lie algebras have the structure of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations. We investigate the behavior of their fiberwise compactifications. Expressing adjoint orbits and fibers as affine varieties in their Lie algebra, we compactify them to projective varieties via homogenization of the defining ideals. We find that their Hodge diamonds vary wildly according to the choice of homogenization, and that extensions of the potential to the compactification must acquire degenerate singularities.