reading backlog

By lieven

One of the things I like most about returning from a vacation is to have an enormous pile of fresh reading : a week's worth of newspapers, some regular mail and much more email (three quarters junk). Also before getting into bed after the ride I like to browse through the arXiv in search for interesting papers.
This time, the major surprise of my initial survey came from the newspapers. No, not Bush again, that news was headline even in France. On the other hand, I didn't hear a word about Theo Van Gogh being shot and stabbed to death in Amsterdam. I'll come back to this later.
I'd rather mention the two papers that somehow stood out during my scan of this week on the arXiv. The first is Framed quiver moduli, cohomology, and quantum groups by Markus Reineke. By the deframing trick, a framed quiver moduli problem is reduced to an ordinary quiver moduli problem for a dimension vector for which one of the entries is equal to one, hence in particular, an indivisible dimension vector. Such quiver problems are far easier to handle than the divisible ones where everything can at best be reduced to the classical problem of classifying tuples of $n \times n$ matrices up to simultaneous conjugation. Markus deals with the case when the quiver has no oriented cycles. An important examples of a framed moduli quiver problem with oriented cycles is the study of Brauer-Severi varieties of smooth orders. Significant progress on the description of the fibers in this case is achieved by Raf Bocklandt, Stijn Symens and Geert Van de Weyer and will (hopefully) be posted soon.
The second paper is Moduli schemes of rank one Azumaya modules by Norbert Hoffmann and Urich Stuhler which brings back longforgotten memories of my Ph.D. thesis, 21 years ago…

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