Intrinsic Non-Reductive Geometric Invariant Theory and Moduli Spaces of Principal Bundles with Non-Reductive Structure Groups

Abstract

We prove the existence of moduli spaces for algebraic stacks with a weak action of $\Theta =[{\mathbb{A}}^1/{\mathbb{G}}_m]$ (including stacks of filtered objects and unstable $\Theta$-strata) for which the center admits a good moduli space and the retraction to the center has flat, finitely presented relative inertia, providing a stack-intrinsic generalization of the existence of non-reductive Geometric Invariant Theory quotients. As an application, we construct quasi-projective coarse moduli spaces of principal bundles over a smooth projective curve with non-reductive structure groups, including moduli spaces of Ramanathan unstable principal bundles of fixed Harder--Narasimhan type.

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