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 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 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 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 can be recovered from its intermediate Jacobian.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2024.28.127
Published at https://msp.org/gt/2024/28-1/p02.xhtml
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