A_ -algebras associated with curves and rational functions on M_g,g. I

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Abstract: We consider the natural A-infinity structure on the Ext-algebra Ext∗(G,G) associated with the coherent sheaf G=calOCopluscalOp1oplus...opluscalOpn on a smooth projective curve C, where p1,...,pninC are distinct points. We study the homotopy class of the product m3. Assuming that h0(p1+...+pn)=1 we prove that m3 is homotopic to zero if and only if C is hyperelliptic and the points pi are Weierstrass points. In the latter case we show that m4 is not homotopic to zero, provided the genus of C is at least 2. In the case n=g we prove that the A-infinity structure is determined uniquely (up to homotopy) by the products mi with ile6. Also, in this case we study the rational map calMg,goBbbAg2−2g associated with the homotopy class of m3. We prove that for gge6 it is birational onto its image, while for gle5 it is dominant. We also give an interpretation of this map in terms of tangents to C in the canonical embedding and in the projective embedding given by the linear series |2(p1+...+pg)|.


\(A_\infty\)-algebras over a field are special graded algebras which play an essential role in algebra, geometry, and mathematical physics since more then 20 years. In particular, if \(C\) is a smooth projective curve of genus \(g\) over an algebraically closed field \(k\), then any generator \(G\) in the derived category \(D^b(C)\) of coherent sheaves on \(C\) defines a special \(A_\infty\)-algebra of endomorphisms of \(G\). Actually, this is basically the Ext-algebra \(\operatorname{Ext}^\ast(G,G)\) equipped with certain higher operations \(m_i\), \(i\geq 1\), defined up to homotopy. In the case of an elliptic curve \(C\), this associated \(A_\infty\)-algebra was explicitly described by the second author in [Commun. Math. Phys. 301, No. 3, 709--722 (2011; Zbl 1241.14008)]. In the paper under review, these results are extended to \(A_\infty\)-algebras associated with curves of arbitrary genus. As a generator for the derived category \(D^b(C)\), the authors choose the sheaf \(G:=\mathcal{O}_C\oplus\mathcal{O}_{p_1}\oplus\ldots\oplus\mathcal{O}_{p_n}\) for distinct points \(p_1,\ldots,p_n\) in \(C\) such that \(n\leq g\), and study then the induced \(A_\infty\)-algebra structure on the Ext-algebra \(E_{g,n}:=\operatorname{Ext}^\ast(G,G)\) under the additional assumption \(h^0(p_1+\ldots+p_n)=1\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEUsing a minimal resolution of the algebra \(E_{g,g}\) invented by \textit{M. J. Bardzell} [J. Algebra 188, No. 1, 69--89 (1997; Zbl 0885.16011)], they calculate the Hochschild cohomology of \(E_{g,g}\) in order to completely determine the \(A_\infty\)-algebra structure of this object. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the algebra \(E_{n,g}\) is not determined by any finite number of the structural operations \(m_i\), \(i\geq 1\), quite in contrast to the special case \(n=g\), where \(E_{g,g}\) is determined by \(m_1,\ldots,m_6\) up to homotopy. In the latter case, the obtained results are used to study the rational map from the moduli space \(M_{g,g}\) of \(g\)-pointed curves of genus \(g\) to the affine space \(\mathbb{A}^ {g^2-2g}\), which is naturally associated with the homotopy class of the particular operation \(m_3\). More precisely, it is shown that this map is birational onto its image for \(g\geq 6\), while for \(g\leq 5\) it is dominant. A crucial tool in these investigations is A. Polishchuk's method of triple Massey products on curves as developed in his earlier work [\textit{A. Polishchuk}, Mosc. Math. J. 3, No. 1, 105--121 (2003; Zbl 1092.14036)].











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