The desingularization of the theta divisor of a cubic threefold as a moduli space

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Authors
  • A. Bayer
  • S.V. Beentjes
  • S. Feyzbakhsh
  • G. Hein
Publication date 2024
Journal Geometry & Topology
Volume | Issue number 28 | 1
Pages (from-to) 127-160
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract
We show that the moduli space M x (v) of Gieseker stable sheaves on a smooth cubic threefold X with Chern character v = (3,−H,−1/2 H2, 1/6H3)is smooth and of dimension four. Moreover, the Abel–Jacobi map to the intermediate Jacobian of X maps it birationally onto the theta divisor Θ, contracting only a copy of X ⊂ M X(v) to the singular point 0 ∈ Θ.
We use this result to give a new proof of a categorical versio n of the Torelli theorem for cubic threefolds, which says that X can be recovered from its Kuznetsov component Ku(X) ⊂ Db (X). Similarly, this leads to a new proof of the description of the singularity of the theta divisor, and thus of the classical Torelli theorem for cubic threefolds, ie that X can be recovered from its intermediate Jacobian.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2024.28.127 (Final published version)
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https://msp.org/gt/2024/28-1/p02.xhtml (Final published version)
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