Parallels between moduli of quiver representations and vector bundles over curves (Q1755877)

This work is a very interesting survey about the connections between moduli of quiver representations and moduli of vector bundles. It contains many enlightening examples and stimulating exercises. The first sections aim to introduce the reader to quivers, their representations and their moduli spaces (see Section 2), vector bundles over curves and their moduli spaces (see Section 3). Section 4 is dedicated to the associated hyperkähler moduli spaces. For quivers, such objects rise when considering, over the complex numbers, the representations of the double quiver, with relations. The analog for bundles is given by Higgs bundles and their moduli space (and relative branes). Section 5 is mainly devoted to the proof of Theorem 5.3, due to \textit{W. Crawley-Boevey} and \textit{M. Van den Bergh} [Invent. Math. 155, No. 3, 537--559 (2004; Zbl 1065.16009)]. This result gives a formula to compute the number \(\mathcal{A}_{Q,d}(q)\) of isomorphic classes of absolutely indecomposable representations of a quiver \(Q\) over a finite field \(\mathbb{F}_q\), of sufficiently large prime characteristic, with indivisible dimension vector \(d\). The last part of the section describes the extension of this result to vector bundles, due to \textit{O. Schiffmann} [Ann. Math. (2) 183, No. 1, 297--362 (2016; Zbl 1342.14076)].