Spherical Hall Algebras of Weighted Projective Curves

Abstract

AbstractIn this article, we deal with the structure of the spherical Hall algebra $\mathbf{U}$ of coherent sheaves with parabolic structures on a smooth projective curve $X$ of arbitrary genus $g$. We provide a shuffle-like presentation of the bundle part $\mathbf{U}^>$ and show the existence of generic spherical Hall algebra of genus $g$. We also prove that the algebra $\mathbf{U}$ contains the characteristic functions on all the Harder–Narasimhan strata. These results together imply Schiffmann’s theorem on the existence of Kac polynomials for parabolic vector bundles of fixed rank and multi-degree over $X$. On the other hand, the shuffle structure we obtain is new and we make links to the representations of quantum affine algebras of type $A$.