Quiver Varieties and Framed Sheaves on Compactified Kleinian Singularities

Abstract: Consider a Kleinian singularity $ \mathbb{C}^2/\Gamma $, where $ \Gamma $ is a finite subgroup of $ SL_2(\mathbb{C}) $. In this paper, we introduce a natural stack compactifying the singularity by adding a smooth stacky divisor, and we show that sets of framed sheaves on this stack satisfying certain additional criteria are closely related to a class of Nakajima quiver varieties. This partially extends our previous work on punctual Hilbert schemes of Kleinian singularities.