Singularities of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections and Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtrations (Q2217886)

Let \( B \) be the open unit ball in \( \mathbb{C}^n \) and let \( \mathcal{E} \) be a reflexive sheaf on \( B \) with an isolated singularity at \( 0 \). If \( A \) is any admissible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connection on \( \mathcal{E} \), it is natural to investigate the behavior of \( A \) near the isolated singularity. To this aim, consider the tangent cones of \( A \) at \( 0 \), which are admissible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections on \( \mathbb{C}^n \), obtained by pulling back \( A \) through dilatations \( z \mapsto \lambda z \) of \( \mathbb{C}^n \), and then by taking appropriate limits as \( \lambda \to 0 \). A tangent cone of \( A \) in \( 0 \) is, in general, not unique, given that it depends not only on \( A \) but also on the choice of subsequences. The first main result of this paper states that, in the setting above, there is a unique tangent cone of \( A \) at \( 0 \) provided that the sheaf \( \mathcal{E} \) satisfies the following conditions: (1) there is a holomorphic vector bundle \( \mathcal{\underline{E}} \to \mathbb{CP}^{n-1} \) such that \( \mathcal{E} \) is isomorphic to \( {\iota_B}_* {\pi_B}^* \mathcal{\underline{E}} \), where \( \iota_B \colon B\setminus\{0\} \hookrightarrow B \) and \( \pi_B \colon B\setminus\{0\} \to \mathbb{CP}^{n-1} \) are the obvious maps, in this case \( 0 \) is a homogeneous singularity of \( \mathcal{E} \); (2) the graded sheaf determined by the Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtrations of \( \mathcal{\underline{E}} \) is reflexive. To highlight the main ideas behind this theorem, the proof is given in three steps of increasing generality. One of the key concepts in the proof is the degree at \( 0 \) of a nonzero local holomorphic section of \( \mathcal{E} \). Such quantity is related to the slopes of the successive quotients of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration of \( \mathcal{E} \). In the case of non necessarily homogeneous singularities, the second main theorem of this paper states the following. Let \( A \) be any admissible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connection on \( \mathcal{E} \) and suppose that there is a locally free and stable algebraic tangent cone of \( \mathcal{E} \) at \( 0 \), then there is a unique tangent cone of \( A \) at \( 0 \). To explain the terminology, let \( p \colon \hat{B} \to B \) be the blowup of \( B \) at \( 0 \). An algebraic tangent cone of \( \mathcal{E} \) at \( 0 \) is a coherent sheaf on \( \mathbb{CP}^{n-1} \) given by the restriction of a reflexive sheaf \( \mathcal{F} \) on \( \hat{B} \) for which \( \mathcal{F}|_{\hat{B} \setminus p^{-1}(0)} \cong p^{*}\bigl( \mathcal{E}|_{B \setminus \{0\}} \bigr) \). At the end of the paper there are explicit nontrivial examples on which the second main theorem can be applied.