The Harder-Narasimhan system in quantum groups and cohomology of quiver moduli (Q1396685)

In the paper under review the author uses the methods of Harder and Narasimhan from the theory of moduli of vector bundles to investigate the moduli of representations of a quiver. This is done by applying the notions of stability and of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration to the representation varieties of quivers. In this way, he constructs the Harder-Narasimhan stratification of the spaces of representations. Using the Hall algebra approach to quantum groups, an analog of the Harder-Narasimhan recursion is obtained inside the quantized enveloping algebra of a Kac-Moody algebra. This yields a resolution of the Harder-Narasimhan system. As an application, the cohomology of quiver moduli is explicitly computed. This generalizes some results on the cohomology of quotients in the literature.