Polytopes, quasi-minuscule representations and rational surfaces

Abstract

We describe the relation between quasi-minuscule representations, polytopes and Weyl group orbits in Picard lattices of rational surfaces. As an application, to each quasi-minuscule representation we attach a class of rational surfaces, and realize such a representation as an associated vector bundle of a principal bundle over these surfaces. Moreover, any quasi-minuscule representation can be defined by rational curves, or their disjoint unions in a rational surface, satisfying certain natural numerical conditions. © 2017, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic.