A class of perverse sheaves on framed representation varieties of the Jordan quiver (Q2437612)

Nilpotent cones of type \(A\), and the varieties of commuting pairs, one nilpotent, have been of much interest in the past few years. One can generalize the commuting pairs with the use of framing, obtaining what are called framed nilpotent representation varieties. The purpose of the article under review is to begin the study of the geometry of framed representation varieties. The author constructs a class of perverse sheaves on these varieties and show that the associated local systems are always trivial. The ideas used here are then used to obtain a geometric realizations of the group algebra \(\mathbb{C}\left[ G\right] ,\) where \(G\) is a product of symmetric groups. Briefly, the construction is as follows. For a given representation space \(\mathbf{E}_{v,d,Q}=\text{End}\left( V\right) \times \text{Hom}\left( V,D\right) \), \(\dim V=v,\dim D=d\) of the quiver \(Q\), a class of resolutions of singularities \(\mathcal{\tilde{F}} _{1}\rightarrow\mathbf{E}_{v,d,Q}\) is given. These resolutions are all semismall, hence the push forward of the intersection cohomology complex of \(\mathcal{\tilde{F}}_{1}\) is a semisimple perverse sheaf.