Local multiplicativity of perverse filtrations
Zili Zhang
TL;DR
Let $f:S\to C$ be a proper surjective morphism from a smooth Kähler surface to a smooth curve. The authors define the local perverse filtration on fibers of the induced map $f^{[n]}:S^{[n]}\to C^{(n)}$ and show that it is multiplicative on each fiber if and only if $f$ is an elliptic fibration, linking fiberwise local data to the global geometry. They develop an analytic Douady-space framework to obtain a Göttsche-type decomposition of $R f^{[n]}_* \mathbb{Q}_{S^{[n]}}[2n]$ and describe the perverse filtration on $H^*(S^{[n]})$ via decompositions associated with partitions of $n$, compatible with products and symmetric powers. The paper also situates these results within the P=W program for Hitchin-type moduli spaces, clarifying when perverse and weight filtrations interact multiplicatively and providing a route to understanding the topology of Hitchin fibers through local models. Altogether, the work extends multiplicativity of perverse filtrations from Hilbert schemes to the analytic setting and reveals the elliptic-fibration condition as the precise obstruction to local multiplicativity on collision loci.
Abstract
Let $f:S\to C$ be a proper surjective morphism from a smooth Kähler surface to a smooth curve. We show that the local perverse filtration associated with the induced map $S^{[n]}\to C^{(n)}$ is multiplicative on each fiber if and only if $f$ is an elliptic fibration.
