Characteristic varieties and constructible sheaves

DOI10.4171/RLM/503MaRDI QIDQ931056zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexandru Dimca

Publication date 24 June 2008

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702871

zbMATH Keywords

Characteristic varietyConstructible sheafLocal systemPencil of curvesTwisted cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pencils, nets, webs in algebraic geometry (14C21) Rational and birational maps (14E05) (Co)homology theory in algebraic geometry (14F99) Plane and space curves (14H50) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22)

Abstract: We explore the relation between the positive dimensional irreducible components of the characteristic varieties of rank one local systems on a smooth surface and the associated (rational or irrational) pencils. Our study, which may viewed as a continuation of D. Arapura's work, yields new geometric insight into the translated components relating them to the multiplicities of curves in the associated pencil, in a close analogy to the compact situation treated by A. Beauville. The new point of view is the key role played by the constructible sheaves naturally arising from local systems.

Review text

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the translated components of the characteristic variety \(V_1(M)\). Following \textit{D. Arapura} [J. Algebr. Geom. 6, No. 3, 563--597 (1997; Zbl 0923.14010)] such a component \(W\) is described by a pair \((f,\rho)\) where (a) \(f:M \to S\) is a surjective morphism from the quasi projective smooth surface \(M\) to a smooth curve \(S\), having a connected generic fiber \(F\); (b) \(\rho\in T(M)\) is a torsion character such that \(W\) is the translate by \(\rho\) of the subtorus \(f^*(T(S))\) In section 2, basic facts on regular mappings \(f\) and its associated pencils are collected and the notion of admissible map used by Arapura is clarified In section 3, various properties of irreducible components of characteristic varieties are derived by a careful look at the results by Arapura. In section 4, the key role played by the constructible sheaves, obtained as direct images of local systems on \(M\) under the mapping \(f\) is emphasized. In particular for a local system \(L\in W\) the dimension of \(H^1(M,L)\) is expressed in terms of the Euler characteristic \(\chi(S)\) and the cardinality of the singular support of the sheaf \(F=R^0f_*L_\rho\). In the last section, the author associated to \(f\) a finite abelian group \(T(f)\) such that the torsion character \(\rho\) is determined by a character of \(T(f)\). The latter group is computed in terms of the multiplicities of the special fibers of \(f\).

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