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Quiver Bundles and Wall Crossing for Chains

Algebraic Geometry 2019-09-11 v2

Abstract

Holomorphic chains on a Riemann surface arise naturally as fixed points of the natural C*-action on the moduli space of Higgs bundles. In this paper we associate a new quiver bundle to the Hom-complex of two chains, and prove that stability of the chains implies stability of this new quiver bundle. Our approach uses the Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence for quiver bundles. Moreover, we use our result to give a new proof of a key lemma on chains (due to \'Alvarez-C\'onsul, Garc\'ia-Prada and Schmitt), which has been important in the study of Higgs bundle moduli; this proof relies on stability and thus avoids the direct use of the chain vortex equations.

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@article{arxiv.1709.09581,
  title  = {Quiver Bundles and Wall Crossing for Chains},
  author = {P. B. Gothen and A. Nozad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09581},
  year   = {2019}
}
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