On automorphisms of semistable \(G\)-bundles with decorations (Q6176264)

This paper shows a rigidity theorem for the automorphisms of points in stacks of decorated \(G\)-bundles (with \(G\) reductive), over projective varieties, which admit adequate moduli spaces (which are good moduli spaces in characteristic zero). Examples of decorations (section 4) include Higgs bundles, Hitchin pairs, parabolic \(G\)-bundles, holomorphic chains and \(G\)-bundles with a section over curves. The stability condition imposed on the classification problem in order to construct a moduli space is expected to impose certain rigidity conditions on the algebraic group of automotphisms of each \(G\)-bundle which preserve the respective decoration. This article shows (Theorem 3.1) that the restriction of this group to any fiber yields a finite group scheme kernel with unipotent geometric points; in particular, in characteristic zero, restricting to a closed point gives a trivial kernel, hence an immersion of algebraic groups, and the information is preserved by restriction. Section 5 contains two applications of this result in characteristic zero, say, stacks of decorated \(G\)-bundles admitting a good moduli space can be functorially viewed as global quotient stacks (Proposition 5.4) and the relative moduli stack of semistable meromorphic \(G\)-Higgs bundles is smooth (Proposition 5.5). Section 6 explains how to adapt the argument to work for Gieseker semistable \(G\)-bundles on higher dimensional varieties.