Bernd KREUSSLER
(Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

Semi-stable sheaves on nodal cubics

Motivated by Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry conjecture, in recent years, derived categories of coherent sheaves on smooth projective varieties and their groups of auto-equivalences attracted a lot of interest. In this talk, which presents joint work with Igor Burban, we study the first non-trivial singular example: nodal cubic curves. We use techniques of P. Seidel and R. Thomas to construct a Fourier-Mukai transform on such a curve. We apply this functor, which is an equivalence, to give an explicit description of all indecomposable semi-stable torsion free sheaves of degree zero on irreducible nodal cubic curves. For such sheaves, we are able to calculate the Fourier-Mukai transform explicitly. We apply results on the classification of modules of finite length over a nodal ring, which were obtained by Gelfand and Ponomarev in the 1960s.

References:

  1. I.Burban, B.Kreussler, Fourier-Mukai transforms and semi-stable sheaves on nodal Weierstrass cubics, arXiv:math.AG/0401437.
  2. Seidel, P.; Thomas, R. Braid group actions on derived categories of coherent sheaves, Duke Math. J. 108 (2001) 37--108, arXiv:math.AG/0001043.
  3. Gelfand, I.M.; Ponomarev, V.A. Indecomposable representations of the Lorentz group, Russ. Math. Surv. 23 (1968) 1--58; translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk 23 (1968) no. 2 (140), 3--60.
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