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Algebra Seminar

Monday, February 4, 2008 - 4:00pm

Alina Marian

IAS Princeton

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Tea will be served at 3:00 PM in the Lounge

Moduli spaces of Gieseker semistable sheaves on curves and surfaces carry natural theta divisors, which are higher-rank analogues of the classical theta divisors on the Picard varieties of curves. If one has two complementary setups each consisting of a moduli space of sheaves together with a theta bundle on it, it is often the case that the spaces of sections of the two theta bundles, on the different moduli spaces, are naturally dual. I will describe this phenomenon in a series of examples. [This is joint work with Dragos Oprea.]