Nonprojective crepant resolutions of quiver varieties

Abstract: In this paper, we construct a large class of examples of proper, nonprojective crepant resolutions of singularities for Nakajima quiver varieties. These include four and six dimensional examples and examples with $Q$ containing only three vertices. There are two main techniques: by taking a locally projective resolution of a projective partial resolution as in our previous work arXiv:2311.07539, and more generally by taking quotients of open subsets of representation space which are not stable loci, related to Arzhantsev--Derental--Hausen--Laface's construction in the setting of Cox rings. By the latter method we exhibit a proper crepant resolution that does not factor through a projective partial resolution. Most of our quiver settings involve one-dimensional vector spaces, hence the resolutions are toric hyperk\"ahler, which were studied from a different point of view in Arbo and Proudfoot arXiv:1511.09138. This builds on the classification of projective crepant resolutions of a large class of quiver varieties in arXiv:2212.09623 and the classification of proper crepant resolutions for the hyperpolygon quiver varieties in arXiv:2406.04117.