Journal article
Representation varieties of algebras with nodes
Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Vol.21(6), pp.2215-2245
11/2022
DOI: 10.1017/S1474748021000219
Abstract
We study the behaviour of representation varieties of quivers with relations under the operation of node splitting. We show how splitting a node gives a correspondence between certain closed subvarieties of representation varieties for different algebras, which preserves properties like normality or having rational singularities. Furthermore, we describe how the defining equations of such closed subvarieties change under the correspondence.
By working in the ‘relative setting’ (splitting one node at a time), we demonstrate that there are many nonhereditary algebras whose irreducible components of representation varieties are all normal with rational singularities. We also obtain explicit generators of the prime defining ideals of these irreducible components. This class contains all radical square zero algebras, but also many others, as illustrated by examples throughout the paper. We also show that this is true when irreducible components are replaced by orbit closures, for a more restrictive class of algebras. Lastly, we provide applications to decompositions of moduli spaces of semistable representations of certain algebras.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Representation varieties of algebras with nodes
- Creators
- Ryan KinserAndrás C Lőrincz
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Vol.21(6), pp.2215-2245
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1474748021000219
- ISSN
- 1474-7480
- eISSN
- 1475-3030
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 10/25/2018
- Date published
- 11/2022
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Record Identifier
- 9984240875102771
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