Strictly Semistable Quasimaps on the Wall

Abstract

Moduli spaces of $ε$-stable quasimaps exhibit a wall and chamber structure, interpolating between the moduli of stable quasimaps and Kontsevich's moduli spaces of stable maps. In the case where the target is projective space, we develop an intrinsic framework for the wall crossing phenomenon by constructing an algebraic stack where strictly semistable objects appear at a wall in the space of $ε$-stability conditions. We show this algebraic stack admits a proper good moduli space and analyze the variation of $Θ$-stratification on this stack. This yields a new approach to developing a K-theoretic wall crossing formula for $ε$-stable quasimap invariants via non-abelian localization.