On subregular slices of the elliptic Grothendieck–Springer resolution

Abstract

In \cite{davis19}, the author constructed an elliptic version of the Grothendieck-Springer resolution for the stack $\mathrm{Bun}_G$ of principal bundles under a simply connected simple group $G$ on an elliptic curve $E$. This is a simultaneous log resolution of a map from $\mathrm{Bun}_G$ to the union of the coarse moduli space of semistable $G$-bundles and a single stacky point. In this paper, we study singularities, resolutions and deformations coming from subregular slices of this elliptic Grothendieck-Springer resolution. More precisely, we construct explicit slices of $\mathrm{Bun}_G$ through all subregular unstable bundles, for every $G$. For $G \neq SL_2$, we describe the pullbacks of the elliptic Grothendieck-Springer resolution to these slices as concrete varieties, extending and refining earlier work of I. Grojnowski and N. Shepherd-Barron, who related these varieties to del Pezzo surfaces in type $E$. We use the resolutions to identify the singularities of the unstable locus of the subregular slices, and prove that that the extended coarse moduli space map gives deformations that are miniversal among torus-equivariant deformations with appropriate weights.