Intersection cohomology of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces (Q1618263)

Let \(S\) be a smooth projective surface and \(M_v\) (resp. \(\mathfrak{M}_v\)) be the coarse moduli space (resp. moduli stack) of Gieseker semistable sheaves on \(S\) with fixed Chern character \(v\in H^{\mathrm{even}}(X,\mathbb{Q})\). They are in general singular and intersection cohomology behaves better than the usual singular cohomology on them. The intersection Poincaré polynomial is defined using dimensions of intersection cohomology groups. The paper under review relates intersection Poincaré polynomials of \(M_v\) and \(\mathfrak{M}_v\) under certain conditions, which in particular are applicable to the case when \(S=\mathbb{P}^2\) is the projective plane. Moreover, using mixed Hodge structure, Hodge-Poincaré polynomials of \(M_v\) and \(\mathfrak{M}_v\) are compared. The argument uses smooth moduli spaces of framed sheaves and their push-forward map to the moduli space \(M_v\).