On the stack of 0-dimensional coherent sheaves: motivic aspects

Abstract

Let $X$ be a variety. In this survey, we study (decompositions of) the motivic class, in the Grothendieck ring of stacks, of the stack $\mathscr{C}oh^n(X)$ of $0$-dimensional coherent sheaves of length $n$ on $X$. To do so, we review the construction of the support map $\mathscr{C}oh^n(X) \to \mathrm{Sym}^n(X)$ to the symmetric product and we prove that, for any closed point $p \in X$, the motive of the punctual stack $\mathscr{C}oh^n(X)_p$ parametrising sheaves supported at $p$ only depends on a formal neighbourhood of $p$. We perform the same analysis for the Quot-to-Chow morphism $\mathrm{Quot}_X(\mathcal E,n) \to \mathrm{Sym}^n(X)$, for a fixed sheaf $\mathcal E \in \mathrm{Coh}(X)$.