Quiver coefficients of Dynkin type

Anders Skovsted Buch

Published 2007-08-25Version 1

We study the Grothendieck classes of quiver cycles, i.e. invariant closed subvarieties of the representation space of a quiver. For quivers without oriented loops we show that the class of a quiver cycle is determined by quiver coefficients, which generalize the earlier studied quiver coefficients for equioriented quivers of type A. We conjecture that quiver coefficients satisfy positivity and finiteness properties. Our main result is a formula for the quiver coefficients for orbit closures of Dynkin type with rational singularities, which confirms the finiteness conjecture. This formula is based on Reineke's desingularization of such orbit closures. For quivers of type A3, we give positive combinatorial formulas for the quiver coefficients, which confirm the full conjecture. We also interpret quiver coefficients as formulas for degeneracy loci defined by quivers of vector bundle maps.