Morse theory of the moment map for representations of quivers

DOI10.1007/S10711-010-9508-5zbMATH Open1226.53081arXiv0807.4734OpenAlexW1984878020WikidataQ60137724 ScholiaQ60137724MaRDI QIDQ649033FDOQ649033

Authors: Megumi Harada, Graeme Wilkin 

Publication date: 30 November 2011

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The results of this paper concern the Morse theory of the norm-square of the moment map on the space of representations of a quiver. We show that the gradient flow of this function converges, and that the Morse stratification induced by the gradient flow co-incides with the Harder-Narasimhan stratification from algebraic geometry. Moreover, the limit of the gradient flow is isomorphic to the graded object of the Harder-Narasimhan-Jordan-H"older filtration associated to the initial conditions for the flow. With a view towards applications to Nakajima quiver varieties we construct explicit local co-ordinates around the Morse strata and (under a technical hypothesis on the stability parameter) describe the negative normal space to the critical sets. Finally, we observe that the usual Kirwan surjectivity theorems in rational cohomology and integral K-theory carry over to this non-compact setting, and that these theorems generalize to certain equivariant contexts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4734

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyMorse theoryquiver varietyhyperkähler quotient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

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