On the cohomological Hall algebra of a character variety

Abstract

A multiplication on the 2D cohomological Hall algebra (CoHA) of the variety of commuting matrices was described by Schiffman and Vasserot. This construction can be generalised to other varieties that exist as the zero-locus of a function on a smooth ambient variety. On the 2D CoHA of the character variety of the fundamental group of a genus $g$ Riemann surface, we compare the multiplication induced by the standard presentation and that of a brane tiling presentation.