Sheaves on nodal singularities I
Abstract
We study two families of moduli spaces of sheaves attached to the node, namely the punctual Hilbert schemes of the non-reduced plane curve xuyv=0, and the punctual Quot schemes of the module k[[x]]uβ k[[y]]v over the reduced node xy=0. We compute their motivic generating functions for all u,v and over every field. Both are specializations of a single rational function whose numerator counts matrices by rank, and they are related by the substitution πβ¦ Qπ. This proves the Hilb--Quot correspondence for the node with independent ranks on the two branches. The main geometric ingredient is an elementary modification of an ideal along a branch of the curve, whose fibres are affine spaces of dimension equal to a contact length. We also construct stratifications of the Hilbert schemes into products of affine spaces and tori, and we formulate a branchwise Hilb--Quot--HOMFLY conjecture, which we test on the colored Hopf link.
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BibTeX
@misc{huang2026sheaves,
title = {{Sheaves on nodal singularities I}},
author = {Yifeng Huang and Ruofan Jiang and Alexei Oblomkov},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.34676},
eprint = {2610.34676},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34676},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Sheaves on nodal singularities I
AU - Yifeng Huang
AU - Ruofan Jiang
AU - Alexei Oblomkov
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.34676
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34676
AB - We study two families of moduli spaces of sheaves attached to the node, namely the punctual Hilbert schemes of the non-reduced plane curve x^uy^v=0, and the punctual Quot schemes of the module k[[x]]^uβ k[[y]]^v over the reduced node xy=0. We compute their motivic generating functions for all u,v and over every field. Both are specializations of a single rational function whose numerator counts matrices by rank, and they are related by the substitution πβ¦ Qπ. This proves the Hilb--Quot correspondence for the node with independent ranks on the two branches. The main geometric ingredient is an elementary modification of an ideal along a branch of the curve, whose fibres are affine spaces of dimension equal to a contact length. We also construct stratifications of the Hilbert schemes into products of affine spaces and tori, and we formulate a branchwise Hilb--Quot--HOMFLY conjecture, which we test on the colored Hopf link.
ER -