Coherent sheaves on surfaces, COHAs and deformed $W_{1+\infty}$-algebras
Abstract
We compute the cohomological Hall algebra of zero-dimensional sheaves on an arbitrary smooth quasi-projective surface with pure cohomology, deriving an explicit presentation by generators and relations. When has trivial canonical bundle, this COHA is isomorphic to the enveloping algebra of deformed trigonometric -algebra associated to the ring . We also define a double of this COHA, show that it acts on the homology of various moduli stacks of sheaves on and explicitly describe this action on the products of tautological classes. Examples include Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces, the moduli stack of Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve and the moduli stack of -dimensional sheaves on a surface in an ample class. The double COHA is shown to contain Nakajima's Heisenberg algebra, as well as a copy of the Virasoro algebra.
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@article{arxiv.2311.13415,
title = {Coherent sheaves on surfaces, COHAs and deformed $W_{1+\infty}$-algebras},
author = {Anton Mellit and Alexandre Minets and Olivier Schiffmann and Eric Vasserot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.13415},
year = {2026}
}
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v2: final version; v1: 68 pages