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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 215


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Jonathon Fleck

University of Utah

Title

Stability of Borel-Fixed Ideals of Projective Space

Abstract

The Hilbert schemes classifying the closed subschemes of projective space with a fixed Hilbert polynomial are normally thought of as static objects via Grothendieck’s construction. Moreover, for projective spaces of dimensions three or more they have been shown to satisfy a Murphy’s Law of arbitrarily bad behavior. The Hilbert schemes are known, however, to be linearly connected via Borel-fixed ideals by a Theorem of Hartshorne. In this talk, we use Borel-fixed ideals to realize the Hilbert schemes as moduli spaces of Bridgeland-stable objects and use that to study variational properties.

Algebraic Geometry

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