Equivariant stable sheaves and toric GIT

Abstract

For $(X,\,L)$ a polarized toric variety and $G\subset \mathrm {Aut}(X,\,L)$ a torus, denote by $Y$ the GIT quotient $X/\!\!/G$. We define a family of fully faithful functors from the category of torus equivariant reflexive sheaves on $Y$ to the category of torus equivariant reflexive sheaves on $X$. We show, under a genericity assumption on $G$, that slope stability is preserved by these functors if and only if the pair $((X,\,L),\,G)$ satisfies a combinatorial criterion. As an application, when $(X,\,L)$ is a polarized toric orbifold of dimension $n$, we relate stable equivariant reflexive sheaves on certain $(n-1)$-dimensional weighted projective spaces to stable equivariant reflexive sheaves on $(X,\,L)$.