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The cohomological Hall algebra of a surface and factorization cohomology

Algebraic Geometry 2022-03-31 v3

Abstract

For a smooth quasi-projective surface S over complex numbers we consider the Borel-Moore homology of the stack of coherent sheaves on S with compact support and make this space into an associative algebra by a version of the Hall multiplication. This multiplication involves data (virtual pullbacks) governing the derived moduli stack, i.e., the perfect obstruction theory naturally existing on the non-derived stack. By restricting to sheaves with support of given dimension, we obtain several types of Hecke operators. In particular, we study R(S), the Hecke algebra of 0-dimensional sheaves. For the flat case S=A^2, we show that R(S) is an enveloping algebra and identify it, as a vector space, with the symmetric algebra of an explicit graded vector space. For a general S we find the graded dimension of R(S), using the techniques of factorization cohomology.

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@article{arxiv.1901.07641,
  title  = {The cohomological Hall algebra of a surface and factorization cohomology},
  author = {Mikhail Kapranov and Eric Vasserot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.07641},
  year   = {2022}
}

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55 pages