Singularities of the Isospectral Hilbert Scheme

Abstract

We study the singularities of the isospectral Hilbert scheme $B^n$ of $n$ points over a smooth algebraic surface and we prove that they are canonical if $n \leq 5$, log-canonical if $n \leq 7$ and not log-canonical if $n \geq 9$. We describe as well two explicit log-resolutions of $B^3$, one crepant and the other $\mathfrak{S}_3$-equivariant.