Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
2010-04-12
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
14pp. Comments welcome. v2: corrects Example 2.
Scientific paper
Rank functors on a quiver $Q$ are certain additive functors from the category of representations of $Q$ to the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces. Composing with the dimension function on vector spaces gives a rank function on $Q$. These induce functions on $\rep(Q, \alpha)$, the variety of representations of $Q$ of dimension vector $\alpha$, and thus can be used to define "rank loci" in $\rep(Q, \alpha)$ as collections of points satisfying finite lists of linear inequalities of rank functions. Although quiver rank functions are not generally semicontinuous like the rank of a linear map, we show here that they do have the geometric property that these rank loci are constructible subvarieties. The same is true for loci defined by rank functions in Schofield's subrepresentation bundles on $\rep(Q, \alpha)$, and in quiver Grassmannians.
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