《QUIVER ALGEBRAS, WEIGHTED PROJECTIVE LINES, AND THE DELIGNE-SIMPSON PROBLEM》文献.pdfVIP

QUIVER ALGEBRAS, WEIGHTED PROJECTIVE LINES, AND THE DELIGNE-SIMPSON PROBLEM WILLIAM CRAWLEY-BOEVEY Abstract. We describe recent work on preprojective algebras and moduli spaces of their representations. We give an analogue of Kac’s Theorem, charac- terizing the dimension types of indecomposable coherent sheaves over weighted projective lines in terms of loop algebras of Kac-Moody Lie algebras, and ex- plain how it is proved using Hall algebras. We discuss applications to the problem of describing the possible conjugacy classes of sums and products of matrices in known conjugacy classes. Introduction Preprojective algebras were introduced by Gelfand and Ponomarev, and in a deformed version by Crawley-Boevey and Holland. They arose in the theory of representations of quivers, but have interesting links with Kleinian singularities, Kac-Moody Lie algebras and noncommutative symplectic geometry. In the first part of this article, §1, we survey some of the results we have obtained in the last ten years concerning these algebras, and moduli spaces of their representations. The Deligne-Simpson problem asks about the existence of matrices in given conjugacy classes, with product the identity, and no common invariant subspace. Some time ago it became clear that our work on preprojective algebras solves an additive analogue. To solve the original problem, one needs to pass to a new setup, in which representations of quivers are replaced by coherent sheaves on weighted projective lines (or parabolic bundles), and representations of the preprojective algebra are replaced by logarithmic connections. We discuss all thi