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A functorial construction of moduli of sheaves

Algebraic Geometry 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We show how natural functors from the category of coherent sheaves on a projective scheme to categories of Kronecker modules can be used to construct moduli spaces of semistable sheaves. This construction simplifies or clarifies technical aspects of existing constructions and yields new simpler definitions of theta functions, about which more complete results can be proved.

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@article{arxiv.math/0602032,
  title  = {A functorial construction of moduli of sheaves},
  author = {Luis Álvarez-Cónsul and Alastair King},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602032},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

52 pp. Dedicated to the memory of Joseph Le Potier. To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae. Slight change in the definition of the Kronecker algebra in Secs 1 (p3) and 2.2 (p6), with corresponding small alterations elsewhere, to make the constructions work for non-reduced schemes. Section 6.5 rewritten. Remark 2.6 and new references added