Constructing projective varieties in weighted flag varieties

We compute the Hilbert series of general weighted flag varieties and discuss a computer-aided method to determine their defining equations. We apply our results to weighted flag varieties coming from the Lie groups of type G_2 and GL(6), to construct some families of polarised projective varieties in codimensions 8 and 6, respectively.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur

Polarized rigid del Pezzo surfaces in low codimension

We provide explicit graded constructions of orbifold del Pezzo surfaces with rigid orbifold points of type \left\{k_i\times\frac{1}{r_i}(1,a_i): 3\le r_i \le 10,k_i \in \ZZ_{\ge 0}\right\}; as well-formed and quasismooth varieties embedded in some weighted projective space. In particular, we present a collection of 147 such surfaces such that their image under their anti-canonical embeddings can be described by using one of the following sets of equations: a single equation, two linearly independent equations, five maximal Pfaffians of $5\times 5$ skew symmetric matrix, and nine $2\times 2$ minors of size 3 square matrix. This is a complete classification of such surfaces under certain carefully chosen bounds on the weights of ambient weighted projective spaces and it is largely based on detailed computer-assisted searches by using the computer algebra system \textsc{magma}.Comment: 22 pages, 5 tables, An improved version after a referee's comment