Diptych varieties. II: Polar varieties

Abstract

Part I introduced diptych varieties $V_{ABLM}$ and gave a rigorous construction of them in the case $d,e\ge 2$ and $de>4$. Here we prove the existence of $V_{ABLM}$ in all the cases with $de\le4$. At the same time we construct some classes of interesting quasihomogeneous spaces for groups such as $\GL(2)\times\G_m^r$ based on the algebra of polars.