Toric Hall algebras and infinite-dimensional Lie algebras

Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics
Event time: 
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 4:30pm
Location: 
https://yale.zoom.us/j/99433355937 (password was emailed by Ivan on 9/11, also available from Ivan by email)
Speaker: 
Matt Szczesny
Speaker affiliation: 
Boston University
Event description: 
We associate to a projective $n$-dimensional toric variety $X_{\Delta}$ a pair of co-commutative (but generally non-commutative)  Hopf algebras $H^{\alpha}_X, H^{T}_X$. These arise as Hall algebras of certain categories $\Coh^{\alpha}(X), \Coh^T(X)$ of coherent sheaves on $X_{\Delta}$ viewed as a monoid scheme - i.e. a scheme obtained by gluing together spectra of commutative monoids rather than rings. When $X$ is smooth, the category $\Coh^T(X)$ has an explicit combinatorial description as sheaves whose restriction to each $\mathbb{A}^n$ corresponding to a maximal cone is determined by an $n$-dimensional generalized skew shape. The (non-additive) categories  $\Coh^{\alpha}(X), \Coh^T(X)$ are treated via the formalism of proto-exact/proto-abelian categories developed by Dyckerhoff-Kapranov.
 
The Hall algebras $H^{\alpha}_X, H^{T}_X$ are graded and connected, and so enveloping algebras $H^{\alpha}_X \simeq U(\n^{\alpha}_X)$, $H^{T}_X \simeq U(\n^{T}_X)$, where the Lie algebras $\n^{\alpha}_X, \n^{T}_X$ are spanned by the indecomposable coherent sheaves in their respective categories.
 
We explicitly work out several examples, and in some cases are able to relate $\n^T_X$ to known Lie algebras. In particular, when $X = \mathbb{P}^1$, $\n^T_X$ is isomorphic to a non-standard Borel in $\mathfrak{gl}_2 [t,t^{-1}]$. When $X$ is the second infinitesimal neighborhood of the origin inside $\mathbb{A}^2$, $n^T_X$ is isomorphic to a subalgebra of $\mathfrak{gl}_2[t]$. We also consider the case $X=\mathbb{P}^2$, where we give a basis for $\n^T_X$ by describing all indecomposable sheaves in $\Coh^T(X)$.
 
This is joint work with Jaiung Jun.