# The cohomology groups of Hilbert schemes and compactified Jacobians of planar curves

 Topology of Algebraic Varieties Topic: The cohomology groups of Hilbert schemes and compactified Jacobians of planar curves Speaker: Luca Migliorini Affiliation: University of Bologna; Member, School of Mathematics Date: Wednesday, February 18 Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101 Video Link: http://video.ias.edu/tav/2015/0218-LucaMigliorini

I will first discuss a relation between the cohomology groups (with rational coefficients) of the compactified Jacobian and those of the Hilbert schemes of a projective irreducible curve $C$ with planar singularities, which extends the classical Macdonald formula, relating the cohomology groups of the symmetric product of a nonsingular curve to those of its Jacobian. The result follows from a "Support theorem" for the relative Hilbert scheme family associated with a versal deformation of the curve $C$. This approach also defines an important invariant, the "perverse" filtration on the cohomology groups of the Hilbert schemes of $C$. I will then discuss the case $C$ reducible, where a much more complicated relation holds, involving also the compactified Jacobians of partial normalizations of the curve. Work in collaboration with V. Shende and F. Viviani.