Toric sheaves, stability and fibrations (Q6057742)

One of the fundamental problem in algebraic geometry is the study of moduli spaces of torsionfree coherent sheaves on a given variety, with one of the focal point being the stable locus. The goal of the present article is to analyze the behaviour of stable reflexive sheaves with respect to pullbacks, in the equivariant framework of toric geometry. Specifically, the authors consider a toric fibration \(\pi : X' \rightarrow X\) of \(\mathbb{Q}\)-factorial projective toric varieties over the field of complex numbers. Fixing an ample divisor \(L\) on \(X\) and a relatively ample divisor \(L'\) on \(X'\), they choose an adiabatic polarisation on \(X'\), defined by \(L_{\varepsilon}:= \pi^*L+ \varepsilon L'\), where \(\varepsilon\) is a sufficiently small rational number. They study slope stability of reflexive pullbacks of equivariant reflexive sheaves with respect to this polarization, and show that stability (resp. unstability) is preserved in this situation. Moving forward, the article considers a strictly semistable equivariant locally free sheaf \(\mathcal{E}\) on \(X\), which possesses a Jordan-Hölder filtration. The authors show that if the associated graded object Gr\((\mathcal{E})\) is locally free, then to assess the stability of the reflexive pullback of \(\mathcal{E}\), it suffices to look at the reflexive pullbacks of the sheaves arising in the Jordan-Hölder filtration. The precise result in this context is presented in Theorem 1.3. The authors apply these results by specializing to two classes of toric fibrations: the trivial one (i.e. for identity morphism) and blow-up along an invariant subvariety. In the latter case, they establish that blowing up a set of fixed points on a smooth polarized toric variety strictly preserves (semi)stability of a locally free sheaf \(\mathcal{E}\) whose Gr\(((\mathcal{E})\) is locally free. In contrast, blow-up of higher dimensional varieties may push a strictly semistable equivariant reflexive sheaf to the stable locus with a precise criterion provided in Theorem 1.10. These results extend to specific flat families of equivariant reflexive sheaves, leading to an injective map between the relevant moduli spaces of stable equivariant sheaves. The authors illustrate their theorems by providing examples of pullbacks of tangent sheaves. One of the key tool in the proofs is the combinatorial description of equivariant sheaves on toric varieties.