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Murphy's law on a fixed locus of the Quot scheme

Algebraic Geometry 2023-08-01 v1

Abstract

Let T:=GmdT := \mathbb{G}_m^d be the torus acting on the Quot scheme of points nQuotOr/Ad/Zn\coprod_n \mathrm{Quot}_{\mathcal{O}^r/\mathbb{A}^d/\mathbb{Z}}^n via the standard action on Ad\mathbb{A}^d. We analyze the fixed locus of the Quot scheme under this action. In particular we show that for d2d \leq 2 or r2r \leq 2, this locus is smooth, and that for d4d \geq 4 and r3r \geq 3 it satisfies Murphy's law as introduced by Vakil, meaning that it has arbitrarily bad singularities. These results are obtained by giving a decomposition of the fixed locus into connected components, and identifying the components with incidence schemes of subspaces of Pr1\mathbb{P}^{r-1}. We then obtain a characterization of the incidence schemes which occur, in terms of their graphs of incidence relations.

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@article{arxiv.2307.16272,
  title  = {Murphy's law on a fixed locus of the Quot scheme},
  author = {Reinier F. Schmiermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16272},
  year   = {2023}
}

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