Laumon's resolution of Drinfeld's compactification is small

DOI10.4310/MRL.1997.V4.N3.A4zbMATH Open0910.14026arXivalg-geom/9610019MaRDI QIDQ1364802FDOQ1364802

Authors: Alexander Kuznetsov 

Publication date: 6 October 1997

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve of genus 0. Let $FF$ be the variety of complete flags in an $n$-dimensional vector space $V$. Given an $(n-1)$-tuple $alpha$ of positive integers one can consider the space $MMalpha$ of algebraic maps of degree $alpha$ from $C$ to $FF$. This space has drawn much attention recently in connection with Quantum Cohomology. The space $MMalpha$ is smooth but not compact. The problem of compactification of $MMalpha$ proved very important. One compactification $MMLalpha$ (the space of {em quasiflags}), was constructed in cite{L}. However, historically the first and most economical compactification $MMDalpha$ (the space of {em quasimaps}) was constructed by Drinfeld (early 80-s, unpublished). The latter compactification is singular, while the former one is smooth. Drinfeld has conjectured that the natural map $pi:MMLalphaoMMDalpha$ is a small resolution of singularities. In the present note we prove this conjecture. As a byproduct, we compute the stalks of $IC$ sheaf on $MMDalpha$ and, moreover, the Hodge structure in these stalks. Namely, the Hodge structure is a pure Tate one, and the generating function for the $IC$ stalks is just the Lusztig's $q$-analogue of Kostant's partition function (see cite{Lu}).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9610019

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cohomologycompactification of space of algebraic mapsDrinfeld compactificationssmall resolution of singularitiesspace of quasimaps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Global theory and resolution of singularities (algebro-geometric aspects) (14E15) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05)

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