Hilbert schemes of points of \(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(- n)\) as quiver varieties (Q1684759)

The article under review studies Hilbert schemes of points of the total spaces \(X_{n}\) of line bundles \(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^{1}}(-n)\) in terms of ADHM data and realizes them as irreducible connected components of moduli spaces of quiver representations. The surfaces \(X_{n}\) are minimal resolutions of toric singularities of type \(\frac{1}{n}(1,1)\) having Hizebruch surfaces \(\Sigma_{n}\) as projective compactifications, connecting with string theory in physics. In the paper, the authors construct ADHM data for the Hilbert schemes \(\mathrm{Hilb}^{c}(X_{n})\), by going through the description of moduli spaces of framed sheaves of Hirzebruch surfaces \(\Sigma_{n}\), \(\mathcal{M}^{n}(1,0,n)\simeq \mathrm{Hilb}^{c}(X_{n})\). This ADHM data turns out to provide a principal bundle over the Hilbert scheme (c.f. Theorem 3.1). In section \(4\), it is shown how these Hilbert schemes are irreducible connected components of GIT quotients of representation spaces of certain quivers for a suitable choice of the stability parameter (c.f. Theorem 4.5), therefore they can be seen as embedded components into quiver varieties associated, in a natural way, with ADHM data of the Hilbert schemes. It is worth noting that the quiver varieties of this article fall outside the notion of a Nakajima quiver variety carrying naturally a simplectic structure, while \(\mathrm{Hilb}^{c}(X_{n})\) encodes a Poisson structure in general. The authors propose to study further the wall-crossing of the stability parameters to shed light on questions in geometric representation theory, and also to study the Poisson structure of these spaces.