Moduli Spaces of Twisted Endomorphisms and Euler Characteristics

Abstract

For a (quasi)projective variety $X$ and an automorphism $f$ of $X$, we define moduli spaces of twisted endomorphisms of sheaves on $X$. If the automorphism $f$ has finite order, we construct a sheaf of noncommutative algebras $\mathcal{A}_0(f)$ and show that sheaves with a twisted endomorphism can be described as $\mathcal{A}_0(f)$-modules. We compute the topological Euler characteristics of Hilbert schemes of points of the algebra $\mathcal{A}_0(f)$, generalizing the answer for the case where $f$ is the identity automorphism.