Intersection cohomology of the moduli space of Higgs bundles on a genus 2 curve

DOI10.1017/S1474748021000347zbMATH Open1516.14027arXiv1805.05815MaRDI QIDQ6301600FDOQ6301600

Authors: Camilla Felisetti 

Publication date: 14 May 2018

Abstract: Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve of genus $2$. Following a method by O' Grady, we construct a semismall desingularization $ilde{mathcalM}_{Dol}^G$ of the moduli space $mathcal{M}_{Dol}^G$ of semistable $G$-Higgs bundles of degree 0 for $G=GL(2,mathbbC),SL(2,mathbbC)$. By the decomposition theorem by Beilinson, Bernstein, Deligne one can write the cohomology of $ilde{mathcalM}_{Dol}^G$ as a direct sum of the intersection cohomology of $mathcal{M}_{Dol}^G$ plus other summands supported on the singular locus. We use this splitting to compute the intersection cohomology of $mathcal{M}_{Dol}^G$ and prove that the mixed Hodge structure on it is actually pure, in analogy with what happens to ordinary cohomology in the smooth case of coprime rank and degree.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60)

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