Morse theory of the moment map for representations of quivers

Details Morse theory of the moment map for representations of quivers Morse theory of the moment map for representations of quivers

2008-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4734v3

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

48 pages, small revisions from previous version based on referee's comments. To appear in Geometriae Dedicata

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The results of this paper concern the Morse theory of the norm-square of the moment map on the space of representations of a quiver. We show that the gradient flow of this function converges, and that the Morse stratification induced by the gradient flow co-incides with the Harder-Narasimhan stratification from algebraic geometry. Moreover, the limit of the gradient flow is isomorphic to the graded object of the Harder-Narasimhan-Jordan-H\"older filtration associated to the initial conditions for the flow. With a view towards applications to Nakajima quiver varieties we construct explicit local co-ordinates around the Morse strata and (under a technical hypothesis on the stability parameter) describe the negative normal space to the critical sets. Finally, we observe that the usual Kirwan surjectivity theorems in rational cohomology and integral K-theory carry over to this non-compact setting, and that these theorems generalize to certain equivariant contexts.

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