Toric non-equalized flips associated to $\mathbb{C}^*$-actions

Abstract: Starting from $\mathbb{C}^*$-actions on complex projective varieties, we construct and investigate birational maps among the corresponding extremal fixed point components. We study the case in which such birational maps are locally described by toric flips, either of Atiyah type or so called non-equalized. We relate this notion of toric flip with the property of the action being non-equalized. Moreover, we find explicit examples of rational homogeneous varieties admitting a $\mathbb{C}^*$-action whose weighted blow-up at the extremal fixed point components gives a birational map among two projective varieties that is locally a toric non-equalized flip.