Poisson modules and degeneracy loci

Marco Gualtieri, Brent Pym

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In this paper, we study the interplay between modules and sub-objects in holomorphic Poisson geometry. In particular, we define a new notion of "residue" for a Poisson module, analogous to the Poincaré residue of a meromorphic volume form. Of particular interest is the interaction between the residues of the canonical line bundle of a Poisson manifold and its degeneracy loci---where the rank of the Poisson structure drops. As an application, we provide new evidence in favour of Bondal's conjecture that the rank <= 2k locus of a Fano Poisson manifold always has dimension >= 2k+1. In particular, we show that the conjecture holds for Fano fourfolds. We also apply our techniques to a family of Poisson structures defined by Feigin and Odesskii, where the degeneracy loci are given by the secant varieties of elliptic normal curves.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)627-654
Number of pages28
JournalProceedings of the London Mathematical Society
Volume107
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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