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For an abelian surface $A$, we consider stable vector bundles on a generalized Kummer variety $K_n(A)$ with $n>1$. We prove that the connected component of the moduli space which contains the tautological bundles associated to line bundles of degree $0$ is isomorphic to the blowup of the dual abelian surface in one point. We believe that this is the first explicit example of a component which is smooth with a non-trivial canonical bundle., Comment: 28 pages. Comments are welcome!

Given an action of a finite group on a triangulated category with a suitable strong exceptional collection, a construction of Elagin produces an associated strong exceptional collection on the equivariant category. We prove that the endomorphism algebra of the induced exceptional collection is the basic reduction of the skew group algebra of the endomorphism algebra of the original exceptional collection.

We compute the Hochschild cohomology of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces and observe that it is, in general, not determined solely by the Hochschild cohomology of the surface, but by its "Hochschild-Serre cohomology": the bigraded vector space obtained by taking Hochschild homologies with coefficients in powers of the Serre functor. As applications, we obtain various consequences on the deformation theory of the Hilbert schemes; in particular, we recover and extend results of Fantechi, Boissi\`ere, and Hitchin. Our method is to compute more generally for any smooth proper algebraic variety $X$ the Hochschild-Serre cohomology of the symmetric quotient stack $[X^n/\mathfrak{S}_n]$, in terms of the Hochschild-Serre cohomology of $X$., Comment: 45 pages, added further evidence for conjecture

We prove formulas for the cohomology and the extension groups of tautological bundles on punctual Quot schemes over complex smooth projective curves. As a corollary, we show that the tautological bundle determines the isomorphism class of the original vector bundle on the curve. We also give a vanishing result for the push-forward along the Quot--Chow morphism of tensor and wedge products of duals of tautological bundles., Comment: Small changes in exposition, fixed some typos

Recently, a new definition of $\mathbb P$-functors was proposed by Anno and Logvinenko. In their article, the authors wonder whether this notion is symmetric in the sense that the adjoints of $\mathbb P$-functors are again $\mathbb P$-functors, the analogue being true for spherical functors. We give geometric examples involving the Hilbert scheme of points on a surface that yield a negative answer., Comment: 7 pages

Given two $\mathbb{P}$-objects in some algebraic triangulated category, we investigate the possible relations among the associated $\mathbb{P}$-twists. The main result is that, under certain technical assumptions, the $\mathbb{P}$-twists commute if and only if the $\mathbb{P}$-objects are orthogonal. Otherwise, there are no relations at all. In particular, this applies to most of the known pairs of $\mathbb{P}$-objects on hyperk\"ahler varieties. In order to show this, we relate $\mathbb{P}$-twists to spherical twists and apply known results about the absence of relations between pairs of spherical twists., Comment: 19 pages, added references, minor improvements

We observe that general reducible curves in sufficiently positive linear systems on K3 surfaces are of a form that generalises Kodaira's classification of singular elliptic fibres and thus call them extended ADE curves. On such a curve $C$, we describe a compactified Jacobian and show that its components reflect the intersection graph of $C$. This extends known results when $C$ is reduced, but new difficulties arise when $C$ is non-reduced. As an application, we get an explicit description of general singular fibres of certain Lagrangian fibrations of Beauville-Mukai type., Comment: Minor corrections. To appear in Commun. Contemp. Math

We provide a spectral sequence computing the extension groups of tautological bundles on symmetric products of curves. One main consequence is that, if $E\neq \mathcal O_X$ is simple, then the natural map $\operatorname*{Ext}^1(E,E)\to \operatorname*{Ext}^1(E^{[n]},E^{[n]})$ is injective for every $n$. Along with previous results, this implies that $E\mapsto E^{[n]}$ defines an embedding of the moduli space of stable bundles of slope $\mu\notin[-1,n-1]$ on the curve $X$ into the moduli space of stable bundles on the symmetric product $X^{(n)}$. The image of this embedding is, in most cases, contained in the singular locus. For line bundles on a non-hyperelliptic curve, the embedding identifies the Brill--Noether loci of $X$ with the loci in the moduli space of stable bundles on $X^{(n)}$ where the dimension of the tangent space jumps. We also prove that $E^{[n]}$ is simple if $E$ is simple.

We compute a formula for the discriminant of tautological bundles on symmetric powers of a complex smooth projective curve. It follows that the Bogomolov inequality does not give a new restriction to stability of these tautological bundles. It only rules out tautological bundles which are already known to have the structure sheaf as a destabilising subbundle.

Deep Learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are very successful, but hard to interpret. To gain better understanding of how Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) accomplish their tasks, introspection methods have been proposed. Adapting such techniques from computer vision to speech recognition is not straight-forward, because speech data is more complex and less interpretable than image data. In this work, we introduce Gradient-adjusted Neuron Activation Profiles (GradNAPs) as means to interpret features and representations in Deep Neural Networks. GradNAPs are characteristic responses of ANNs to particular groups of inputs, which incorporate the relevance of neurons for prediction. We show how to utilize GradNAPs to gain insight about how data is processed in ANNs. This includes different ways of visualizing features and clustering of GradNAPs to compare embeddings of different groups of inputs in any layer of a given network. We demonstrate our proposed techniques using a fully-convolutional ASR model.

The uninformative ordering of artificial neurons in Deep Neural Networks complicates visualizing activations in deeper layers. This is one reason why the internal structure of such models is very unintuitive. In neuroscience, activity of real brains can be visualized by highlighting active regions. Inspired by those techniques, we train a convolutional speech recognition model, where filters are arranged in a 2D grid and neighboring filters are similar to each other. We show, how those topographic filter maps visualize artificial neuron activations more intuitively. Moreover, we investigate, whether this causes phoneme-responsive neurons to be grouped in certain regions of the topographic map., Comment: Accepted for 2019 ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP

In this paper we provide several results regarding the structure of derived categories of (nested) Hilbert schemes of points. We show that the criteria of Krug-Sosna and Addington for the universal ideal sheaf functor to be fully faithful resp. a $\mathbb{P}$-functor are sharp. Then we show how to embed multiple copies of the derived category of the surface using these fully faithful functors. We also give a semiorthogonal decomposition for the nested Hilbert scheme of points on a surface, and finally we give an elementary proof of a semiorthogonal decomposition due to Toda for the symmetric product of a curve., Comment: 20 pages, added reference to result in new version of Jiang--Leung preprint

Given a vector bundle $E$ on a smooth projective curve or surface $X$ carrying the structure of a $V$-twisted Hitchin pair for some vector bundle $V$, we observe that the associated tautological bundle $E^{[n]}$ on the punctual Hilbert scheme of points $X^{[n]}$ has an induced structure of a $((V^\vee)^{[n]})^\vee$-twisted Hitchin pair, where $(V^\vee)^{[n]}$ is a vector bundle on $X^{[n]}$ constructed using the dual $V^\vee$ of $V$. In particular, a Higgs bundle on $X$ induces a logarithmic Higgs bundle on the Hilbert scheme $X^{[n]}$. We then show that the known results on stability of tautological bundles and reconstruction from tautological bundles generalize to tautological Hitchin pairs., Comment: Final version; Jour. Geom. Phys. (to appear)

We prove that, if $C$ is a smooth projective curve over the complex numbers, and $E$ is a stable vector bundle on $C$ whose slope does not lie in the interval $[-1,n-1]$, then the associated tautological bundle $E^{[n]}$ on the symmetric product $C^{(n)}$ is again stable. Also, if $E$ is semi-stable and its slope does not lie in the interval $(-1,n-1)$, then $E^{[n]}$ is semi-stable.

For $X$ a smooth quasi-projective variety and $X^{[n]}$ its associated Hilbert scheme of $n$ points, we study two canonical Fourier--Mukai transforms $D(X)\to D(X^{[n]})$, the one along the structure sheaf and the one along the ideal sheaf of the universal family. For $\dim X\ge 2$, we prove that both functors admit a left-inverse. This means in particular that both functors are faithful and injective on isomorphism classes of objects. Using another method, we also show in the case of an elliptic curve that the Fourier--Mukai transform along the structure sheaf of the universal family is faithful and injective on isomorphism classes. Furthermore, we prove that the universal family of $X^{[n]}$ is always flat over $X$, which implies that the Fourier--Mukai transform along its structure sheaf maps coherent sheaves to coherent sheaves., Comment: Added J{\o}rgen Rennemo as co-author. Conjecture 1.6 in the previous version is now resolved, see Theorem 1.2 in this version

We consider certain universal functors on symmetric quotient stacks of Abelian varieties. In dimension two, we discover a family of $\mathbb{P}$-functors which induce new derived autoequivalences of Hilbert schemes of points on Abelian surfaces; a set of braid relations on a holomorphic symplectic sixfold; and a pair of spherical functors on the Hilbert square of an Abelian surface, whose twists are related to the well-known Horja twist. In dimension one, our universal functors are fully faithful, giving rise to a semiorthogonal decomposition for the symmetric quotient stack of an elliptic curve (which we compare to the one discovered by Polishchuk--Van den Bergh), and they lift to spherical functors on the canonical cover, inducing twists which descend to give new derived autoequivalences here as well., Comment: Minor revisions. 35 pages

We show that a $\mathbb{P}$-object and simple configurations of $\mathbb{P}$-objects have a formal derived endomorphism algebra. Hence the triangulated category (classically) generated by such objects is independent of the ambient triangulated category. We also observe that the category generated by the structure sheaf of a smooth projective variety over the complex numbers only depends on its graded cohomology algebra., Comment: 23 pages, many changes to improve presentation, strengthened results in Section 5, same content as published version

End-to-end training of automated speech recognition (ASR) systems requires massive data and compute resources. We explore transfer learning based on model adaptation as an approach for training ASR models under constrained GPU memory, throughput and training data. We conduct several systematic experiments adapting a Wav2Letter convolutional neural network originally trained for English ASR to the German language. We show that this technique allows faster training on consumer-grade resources while requiring less training data in order to achieve the same accuracy, thereby lowering the cost of training ASR models in other languages. Model introspection revealed that small adaptations to the network's weights were sufficient for good performance, especially for inner layers., Comment: Accepted for 2nd ACL Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP

For a cyclic group $G$ acting on a smooth variety $X$ with only one character occurring in the $G$-equivariant decomposition of the normal bundle of the fixed point locus, we study the derived categories of the orbifold $[X/G]$ and the blow-up resolution $\widetilde Y \to X/G$. Some results generalise known facts about $X = A^n$ with diagonal $G$-action, while other results are new also in this basic case. In particular, if the codimension of the fixed point locus equals $|G|$, we study the induced tensor products under the equivalence $D^b(\widetilde Y) \cong D^b([X/G])$ and give a 'flop-flop=twist' type formula. We also introduce candidates for general constructions of categorical crepant resolutions inside the derived category of a given geometric resolution of singularities and test these candidates on cyclic quotient singularities., Comment: 34 pages, many improvements from review, to appear in Quarterly J. Math

We study the images of tautological bundles on Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces and their wedge powers under the derived McKay correspondence. The main observation of the paper is that using a derived equivalence differing slightly from the standard one considerably simplifies both the results and their proofs. As an application, we obtain shorter proofs for known results as well as new formulae for homological invariants of tautological sheaves. In particular, we compute the extension groups between wedge powers of tautological bundles associated to line bundles on the surface., Comment: References updated, some typos fixed

We study the class of compact K\"ahler manifolds with trivial canonical bundle and the property that the cohomology of the trivial line bundle is generated by one element. If the square of the generator is zero, we get the class of strict Calabi--Yau manifolds. If the generator is of degree 2, we get the class of compact hyperk\"ahler manifolds. We provide some examples and structure results for the cases where the generator is of higher nilpotency index and degree. In particular, we show that varieties of this type are closely related to higher-dimensional Enriques varieties.

For every smooth projective variety, we construct an action of the Heisenberg algebra on the direct sum of the Grothendieck groups of all the symmetric quotient stacks which contains the Fock space as a subrepresentation. The action is induced by functors on the level of the derived categories which form a weak categorification of the action.

We investigate conditions for a Fourier-Mukai transform between derived categories of coherent sheaves on smooth projective stacks endowed with actions by finite groups to lift to the associated equivariant derived categories. As an application we give a condition under which a global quotient stack cannot be derived equivalent to a variety. We also apply our techniques to generalised Kummer stacks and symmetric quotients., Comment: 24 pages, comments welcome

For every smooth quasi-projective surface X we construct a series of P^{n-1}-functors H_{l,n}: D(X x X^[l]) --> D(X^[n+l]) between the derived categories of the Hilbert schemes of points for n>max{l,1} using the derived McKay correspondence. They can be considered as analogues of the Nakajima operators. The functors also restrict to P^{n-1}-functors on the generalised Kummer varieties. We also study the induced autoequivalences and obtain, for example, a universal braid relation in the groups of derived autoequivalences of Hilbert squares of K3 surfaces and Kummer fourfolds.

We use semi-orthogonal decompositions to construct autoequivalences of Hilbert schemes of points on Enriques surfaces and of Calabi-Yau varieties which cover them. While doing this, we show that the derived category of a surface whose irregularity and geometric genus vanish embeds into the derived category of its Hilbert scheme of points., Comment: 22 pages, comments welcome

We find two natural spherical functors associated to the Kummer surface and analyse how their induced twists fit with Bridgeland's conjecture on the derived autoequivalence group of a complex algebraic K3 surface., Comment: Final version. To appear in Nagoya Math. J

We show that for every smooth projective surface X and every $n\ge 2$ the push-forward along the diagonal embedding gives a $P^{n-1}$-functor into the $S_n$-equivariant derived category of X^n. Using the Bridgeland--King--Reid--Haiman equivalence this yields a new autoequivalence of the derived category of the Hilbert scheme of n points on X. In the case that the canonical bundle of X is trivial and n=2 this autoequivalence coincides with the known EZ-spherical twist induced by the boundary of the Hilbert scheme. We also generalise the 16 spherical objects on the Kummer surface given by the exceptional curves to n^4 orthogonal $P^{n-1}$-Objects on the generalised Kummer variety., Comment: Mistakes in Lemma 3.3, Prop. 4.4, and Remark 4.7 corrected. The changes do not affect the main results

We give a description of the image of tensor products of tautological bundles on Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces under the Bridgeland-King-Reid-Haiman equivalence. Using this, some new formulas for cohomological invariants of these bundles are obtained. In particular, we give formulas for the Euler characteristic of arbitrary tensor products on the Hilbert scheme of two points and of triple tensor products in general.

We give formulas for the extension groups between tautological sheaves and more general between tautological objects twisted by a determinant line bundle on the Hilbert scheme of points on a smooth quasi-projective surface. We do this using L. Scala's results about the image of tautological sheaves under the Bridgeland-King-Reid equivalence. We also compute the Yoneda products in terms of these formulas., Comment: Revised version

We observe a universal ionization threshold for microwave driven one-electron Rydberg states of H, Li, Na, and Rb, in an {\em ab initio} numerical treatment without adjustable parameters. This sheds new light on old experimental data, and widens the scene for Anderson localization in light matter interaction., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure

We establish a close quantitative analogy between the excitation and ionization process of highly excited one electron Rydberg states under microwave driving and charge transport across disordered 1D lattices. Our results open a new arena for Anderson localization - a disorder induced effect - in a large class of perfectly deterministic, decaying atomic systems., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures (2 in colour), proceedings of The International Conference on Multiphoton Processes (ICOMP IX), October 2002: http://www.iesl.forth.gr/icomp9 ;submitted to EPJ

We provide the first statistical analysis of the decay rates of strongly driven 3D atomic Rydberg states. The distribution of the rates exhibits universal features due to Anderson localization, while universality of the time dependent decay requires particular initial conditions., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, ref. on subject

We identify a fundamental structure in the spectrum of microwave driven alkali Rydberg states, which highlights the remnants of the Coulomb symmetry in the presence of a non-hydrogenic core. Core-induced corrections with respect to the hydrogen spectrum can be accounted for by a perturbative approach., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Europhysics Letters