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L. Brambila-Paz

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New examples of twisted Brill-Noether loci II

Our purpose in this paper is to construct new examples of twisted Brill Noether loci on curves of genus g greater than 2 with negative expected dimension. We begin by completing the proof of Butler's conjecture for coherent systems of certain type establishing the birationality, smoothness, and irreducibility of the corresponding loci. We also produce new points on the BN map.

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New examples of twisted Brill-Noether loci I

Our purpose in this paper is to construct new examples of twisted Brill-Noether loci on curves of genus $g\ge2$. Many of these examples have negative expected dimension. We deduce also the existence of a new region in the Brill-Noether map, whose points support non-empty standard Brill-Noether loci.

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Stability and deformations of generalised Picard sheaves

Let $C$ be a smooth irreducible complex projective curve of genus $g \geq 2$ and $M$ the moduli space of stable vector bundles on $C$ of rank $n$ and degree $d$ with $\gcd(n,d)=1$. A generalised Picard sheaf is the direct image on $M$ of the tensor product of a universal bundle on $M\times C$ by the pullback of a vector bundle $E_0$ on $C$. In this paper, we investigate the stability of generalised Picard sheaves and, in the case where these are locally free, their deformations. When $g\ge3$, $n\ge2$ (with some additional restrictions for $g=3,4$) and the rank and degree of $E_0$ are coprime, this leads to the construction of a fine moduli space for deformations of Picard bundles.

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Moduli of unstable bundles of HN-length two with fixed algebra of endomorphisms

Let X be a smooth irreducible complex projective curve of genus g > 1. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for an unstable bundle of HN-lenght 2 to have a particular algebra of endomorphisms. Then, fixing the dimension of the algebra of endomorphisms we obtain a stratification of the moduli scheme such that each strata is a coarse moduli space. A particular case of interest is when the unstable bundles are simple. In that case the moduli space is fine. Topological properties of those moduli spaces are described and will depend on the generality of the curve X. Such results differ from the corresponding results for the moduli space of stable bundles, where non-emptiness, dimension etc. are independent of the curve.

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$(t,\ell)$-stability and coherent systems

Let $X$ be a non-singular irreducible complex projective curve of genus $g\geq 2$. We use $(t,\ell)$-stability to prove the existence of coherent systems over $X$ that are $α$-stable for all allowed $α>0$.

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On generated coherent systems and a conjecture of D. C. Butler

Let $(E,V)$ be a general generated coherent system of type $(n,d,n+m)$ on a general non-singular irreducible complex projective curve. A conjecture of D. C. Butler relates the semistability of $E$ to the semistability of the kernel of the evaluation map $V\otimes \mathcal{O}_X\to E$. The aim of this paper is to obtain results on the existence of generated coherent systems and use them to prove Butler's Conjecture in some cases. The strongest results are obtained for type $(2,d,4)$, which is the first previously unknown case.

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On Chow Stability for algebraic curves

In the last decades there have been introduced different concepts of stability for projective varieties. In this paper we give a natural and intrinsic criterion of the Chow, and Hilbert, stability for complex irreducible smooth projective curves $C\subset \mathbb P ^n$. Namely, if the restriction $T\mathbb P_{|C} ^n$ of the tangent bundle of $\mathbb P ^n$ to $C$ is stable then $C\subset \mathbb P ^n$ is Chow stable, and hence Hilbert stable. We apply this criterion to describe a smooth open set of the irreducible component $Hilb^{P(t),s}_{Ch}$ of the Hilbert scheme of $\mathbb{P} ^n$ containing the generic smooth Chow-stable curve of genus $g$ and degree $d>g+n-\left\lfloor\frac{g}{n+1}\right\rfloor.$ Moreover, we describe the quotient stack of such curves. Similar results are obtained for the locus of Hilbert stable curves.

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On linear systems and a conjecture of D. C. Butler

Let $C$ be a smooth irreducible projective curve of genus $g$ and $L$ a line bundle of degree $d$ generated by a linear subspace $V$ of $H^0(L)$ of dimension $n+1$. We prove a conjecture of D. C. Butler on the semistability of the kernel of the evaluation map $V\otimes{\mathcal O}_C\to L$ and obtain new results on the stability of this kernel. The natural context for this problem is the theory of coherent systems on curves and our techniques involve wall crossing formulae in this theory.

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On the Hilbert scheme of the moduli space of vector bundles over an algebraic curve

Let $M(n,ξ)$ be the moduli space of stable vector bundles of rank $n\geq 3$ and fixed determinant $ξ$ over a smooth projective algebraic curve $X$ over $\mathbb{C}$ of genus $g\geq 4.$ We use the gonality of the curve and $r$-Hecke morphisms to describe a smooth open set and to compute the dimension of a component of the Hilbert scheme $Hilb_{M(n,ξ)}$, of the scheme of morphisms $Mor(\mathbb{G},M(n,ξ))$ and of the moduli space $ M_{X \times \mathbb{G}}$ of stable bundles over $X\times \mathbb{G},$ where $\mathbb{G}$ is the Grassmannian $\mathbb{G}(n-r,\mathbb{C}^n)$. In particular, we prove that $\dim Mor_P(\mathbb{P}^2,M(3,ξ))=8g-7$ and we give a sufficient condition for $Mor_{2ns}(\mathbb{P}^1,M(n,ξ))$ to be non-empty with $s\geq 1.$

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Moduli stacks and moduli schemes for rank 2 unstable bundles

Let X be a geometrically irreducible smooth projective curve over a field k. We describe the algebra of endomorphisms of indecomposable unstable vector bundles over X of rank 2 and degree d. Fixing some numerical invariants, namely the Harder-Narasimhan type and the dimension of the algebra of endomorphisms, we construct algebraic stacks and moduli schemes for such bundles.

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Stability of projective Poincare and Picard bundles

Let $X$ be an irreducible smooth projective curve of genus $g\ge3$ defined over the complex numbers and let ${\mathcal M}_ξ$ denote the moduli space of stable vector bundles on $X$ of rank $n$ and determinant $ξ$, where $ξ$ is a fixed line bundle of degree $d$. If $n$ and $d$ have a common divisor, there is no universal vector bundle on $X\times {\mathcal M}_ξ$. We prove that there is a projective bundle on $X\times {\mathcal M}_ξ$ with the property that its restriction to $X\times\{E\}$ is isomorphic to $P(E)$ for all $E\in\mathcal{M}_ξ$ and that this bundle (called the projective Poincaré bundle) is stable with respect to any polarization; moreover its restriction to $\{x\}\times\mathcal{M}_ξ$ is also stable for any $x\in X$. We prove also stability results for bundles induced from the projective Poincaré bundle by homomorphisms $\text{PGL}(n)\to H$ for any reductive $H$. We show further that there is a projective Picard bundle on a certain open subset $\mathcal{M}'$ of $\mathcal{M}_ξ$ for any $d>n(g-1)$ and that this bundle is also stable. We obtain new results on the stability of the Picard bundle even when $n$ and $d$ are coprime.

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On coherent systems of type (n,d,n+1) on Petri curves

We study coherent systems of type $(n,d,n+1)$ on a Petri curve $X$ of genus $g\ge2$. We describe the geometry of the moduli space of such coherent systems for large values of the parameter $α$. We determine the top critical value of $α$ and show that the corresponding ``flip'' has positive codimension. We investigate also the non-emptiness of the moduli space for smaller values of $α$, proving in many cases that the condition for non-emptiness is the same as for large $α$. We give some detailed results for $g\le5$ and applications to higher rank Brill-Noether theory and the stability of kernels of evaluation maps, thus proving Butler's conjecture in some cases in which it was not previously known.

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Tensor product of coherent systems

Let X be a smooth algebraic curve of genus g>=2. A stable vector bundle over X of degree d, rank n with at least k sections is called a Brill-Noether bundle of type (n,d,k). By tensoring coherent systems, we prove that most of the known Brill-Noether bundles define coherent systems of type (n,d,k) that are alpha-stables for all allowable alpha .

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Non-emptiness of moduli spaces of coherent systems

Let X be a general smooth projective algebraic curve of genus g>1. We prove that the moduli space G(α:n,d,k) of $α$-stable coherent systems of type (n,d,k) over X is empty if k>n and the Brill-Noether number is negative. Moreover, if the Brill-Noether number is positive and 0$, G(α:n,d,k) is non-empty G(α:n,d,k) is non-empty for all $α>0$ and G(α:n,d,k)= G(α':n,d,k) for all $α,α'>0$ and the generic element is generated.

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Deformations of the generalised Picard bundle

Let X be a non-singular algebraic curve of genus at least 3 and let M denote the moduli space of stable vector bundles of rank n and fixed determinant of degree d with n and d coprime. For any semistable bundle E over X, we can pull E back to XxM, tensor with a universal bundle and take the direct image W(E) on M. If the degree of E is sufficiently large, this direct image is locally free and we call it a generalised Picard bundle. In this paper we prove an inversion formula allowing us to recover E from W(E) and compute the space of infinitesimal deformations of W(E). We also identify a family of deformations which is locally complete and frequently globally complete as well. The paper as a whole is a generalisation of results of Kempf and Mukai on Picard bundles over the Jacobian of X.

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Deformations of the Picard Bundle

Let X be a nonsingular projective algebraic curve of genus g\ge3. We consider the moduli space M of stable bundles of fixed determinant with rank n and degree d coprime and d>n(2g-2). There is a universal bundle on XxM and we consider the direct image of this bundle on M. With the given restriction on d, this is a bundle W called the Picard bundle. Our main object in this paper is to compute the infinitesimal deformations of W. We show also that W possesses a moduli space and that the connected component of this moduli space containing W is isomorphic as a polarised variety to the Jacobian of X.

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Nonemptiness of Brill-Noether loci

Let $X$ be a non-singular algebraic curve of genus $g$. We prove that the Brill-Noether locus $\bns $ is non-empty if $d= nd' +d'' $ with $0< d'' <2n$, $1\le s\le g$, $d'\geq (s-1)(s+g)/s $, $n\leq d''+(n-k)g$, $(d'',k)\ne(n,n)$. These results hold for an arbitrary curve of genus $\ge 2$, and allow us to construct a region in the associated ``Brill-Noether $\pa$-map'' of points for which the Brill-Noether loci are non-empty. Even for the generic case, the region so constructed extends beyond that defined by the so-called ``Teixidor parallelograms.'' For hyperelliptic curves, the same methods give more extensive and precise results.

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