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Lagrangian-invariant sheaves and functors for abelian varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2011-12-08 v2

Abstract

We partially generalize the theory of semihomogeneous bundles on an abelian variety AA developed by Mukai. This involves considering abelian subvarieties YXA=A×A^Y\subset X_A=A\times\hat{A} and studying coherent sheaves on AA invariant under the action of YY. The natural condition to impose on YY is that of being Lagrangian with respect to a certain skew-symmetric biextension of XA×XAX_A\times X_A. We prove that in this case any YY-invariant sheaf is a direct sum of several copies of a single coherent sheaf. We call such sheaves Lagrangian-invariant (or LI-sheaves). We also study LI-functors Db(A)Db(B)D^b(A)\to D^b(B) associated with kernels in Db(A×B)D^b(A\times B) that are invariant with respect to some Lagrangian subvariety in XA×XBX_A\times X_B. We calculate their composition and prove that in characteristic zero it can be decomposed into a direct sum of LI-functors. In the case B=AB=A this leads to an interesting central extension of the group of symplectic automorphisms of XAX_A in the category of abelian varieties up to isogeny.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0527,
  title  = {Lagrangian-invariant sheaves and functors for abelian varieties},
  author = {Alexander Polishchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0527},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

48 pages, added a slightly stronger result on convolution of Lagrangian-invariant kernels