Intersection cohomology of the Uhlenbeck compactification of the Calogero-Moser space (Q730335)

In this paper, the authors study two different compactifications of moduli spaces of coherent sheaves (with specific rank \(r\), degree \(d\), and second Chern number \(n\)) on the noncommutative surface \(\mathrm{Proj}\,(A^{\tau})\), where \(A^{\tau }\) is the graded algebra generated by three generators \(x\), \(y\) and \(z\) of degree \(1\) such that \(z\) is central, and the additional relation \([x, y]=\tau z^2\) holds. The two compactifications are obtained using different notions of stability for coherent sheaves: Gieseker compactification \({}^G M_{\tau}(r, d, n)\) is obtained using Gieseker stability, while Uhlenbeck compactification \({}^U M_{\tau}(r, d, n)\) uses Mumford stability. The authors construct a projective morphism from \({}^G M_{\tau}(r, d, n)\) to \({}^U M_{\tau}(r, d, n)\) and prove that it yields a resolution of singularities if the rank \(r\) and the degree \(d\) are coprime. Then they focus on the particular case \(r=1\), \(d=0\), which is their principal object of interest: the main result of the paper is a complete description of the intersection cohomology of \({}^U M_{\tau}(1, 0, n)\).