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

DOI10.1017/S1474748021000347MaRDI QIDQ6301600arXivFDO

Publication date 14 May 2018

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

Abstract: Let

C

be a smooth projective curve of genus

2

. Following a method by O' Grady, we construct a semismall desingularization

i l d e {m a t h c a l M}_{D o l}^{G}

of the moduli space

m a t h c a l M_{D o l}^{G}

of semistable

G

-Higgs bundles of degree 0 for

G = G L (2, m a t h b b C), S L (2, m a t h b b C)

. By the decomposition theorem by Beilinson, Bernstein, Deligne one can write the cohomology of

i l d e {m a t h c a l M}_{D o l}^{G}

as a direct sum of the intersection cohomology of

m a t h c a l M_{D o l}^{G}

plus other summands supported on the singular locus. We use this splitting to compute the intersection cohomology of

m a t h c a l M_{D o l}^{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.

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