Singular symplectic moduli spaces

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Abstract: Moduli spaces of semistable sheaves on a K3 or abelian surface with respect to a general ample divisor are shown to be locally factorial, with the exception of symmetric products of a K3 or abelian surface and the class of moduli spaces found by O'Grady. Consequently, since singular moduli space that do not belong to these exceptional cases have singularities in codimension geq4 they do no admit projective symplectic resolutions.


Apart from those constructed by \textit{S. Mukai} [Invent. Math. 77, 101--116 (1984; Zbl 0565.14002)] there is only one known example of an irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifold. Mukai's examples are the moduli spaces \(M_v\) of semistable sheaves on a polarised \(K3\) or abelian surface in the cases where no strictly semistable sheaves exist. When there do exist strictly semistable sheaves, \(M_v\) is singular and one may ask whether \(M_v\) admits a projective symplectic resolution. This question has been answered in two cases by O'Grady, yielding two new deformation classes of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds. In this paper, the authors show that, apart from O'Grady's examples and examples arising from symmetric products of \(K3\) or abelian surfaces, no further examples arise in this way. The key to this is proving that the moduli spaces \(M_v\) are locally factorial and, apart from the special cases mentioned, have singularities in codimension at least \(4\).



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