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arXiv · 2611.08979

The splitting type of jet bundles on the projective line

Abstract

Given a vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ on a smooth variety X, one can associate to it its jet bundles, or bundles of principal parts. These bundles encode the Taylor expansions of local sections of $\mathcal{E}$ and arise naturally in the study of differential operators. When $X=\mathbb{P}^1$ is the projective line, jet bundles decompose as direct sums of line bundles, making it natural to study their splitting types. The splitting type is well understood in characteristic zero, but exhibits subtler behavior in positive characteristic. Our goal is to give a complete answer in every positive characteristic, and in particular to provide a characterization of semistability for jet bundles on $\mathbb{P}^1$. We also determine their extremal summands and give applications to differential operators and formulas for cohomology of line bundles on infinitesimal thickenings of the diagonal.

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Annet Kyomuhangi, Emanuela Marangone, Claudiu Raicu, Ethan Reed. 2026-11-06. The splitting type of jet bundles on the projective line. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08979

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